On 2019-08-25 11:19 p.m., William Park via talk wrote:
At work, I once tried to use TI micro board (launchpad or something), and to program that, I have to download their IDE and edit through that, because only it knows which headers and libraries to pull in.
Ah yes: TI kind of went their own way and so the Energia IDE for MSP430 - https://energia.nu/, forked from Arduino years ago - never quite became compatible with Arduino. This is a shame, because almost every other microcontroller (except PIC) now has native plugins for the Arduino IDE so the basic functionality is the same across a huge range of hardware. Why Arduino uses its IDE is a messy story: partly because it wasn't meant for programmers but for creative technologists who use the Processing system, partly because the Arduino knocked off the fledgling Wiring IDE without much credit, and partly because the AVR chips that the first Wiring/Arduino systems used needed a very special rewrite of gcc to support those processors' Harvard architecture. But they are getting better in providing command line tools, if those are your jam. cheers, Stewart