mastrolinux —

Live from Maker Faire Rome on Saturday, October 19th at 16.00 CET, Massimo Banzi and Luca Cipriani will push the button to release the new Arduino Pro IDE (alpha) — watch this space.

The simplicity of the Arduino IDE has made it one of the most popular in the world — it’s easy enough for beginners and fast for advanced users. Millions of you have used it as your everyday tool to program projects and applications. We’ve listened to your feedback though, and it’s time for a new enhanced version with features to appeal to the more advanced developers amongst you — while retaining continuity with the simple, classic Arduino IDE that so many of you are familiar with.

We are very excited to announce the release of an alpha version of a completely new development environment for Arduino — the Arduino Pro IDE.

The main features in this initial alpha release of the new Arduino Pro IDE are:

Modern, fully featured development environment

Dual Mode, Classic Mode (identical to the Classic Arduino IDE) and Pro Mode (File System view)

New Board Manager

New Library Manager

Board List

Basic Auto Completion (Arm targets only)

Git Integration

Serial Monitor

Dark Mode

But the new architecture opens the door to features that the Arduino community have been requesting like these that will be following on soon:

Sketch synchronisation with Arduino Create Editor

Debugger

Fully open to third party plug-ins

Support for additional languages other than C++

The new Arduino Pro IDE is based on the latest technologies:

The Arduino CLI running in daemon mode provides all the main Arduino features.

The application frontend is based on the Eclipse Theia Open Source IDE.

Electron, the framework behind Eclipse Theia, allows the use of web technologies on desktop environments.

Available in Windows, Mac OS X and Linux64 versions; we need your help in improving the product. Before releasing the source code to move out of the alpha, we would greatly appreciate your feedback. Like all things in the Arduino community, we grow and develop together through your valued contributions. Please test the Arduino Pro IDE to it’s breaking point, we want to hear all the good and bad things you find. We’re open to recommendations for additional features, as well as hearing about any bugs you may find — there’s bound to be a few as it is an alpha version after all!

You can download the latest release of the Arduino Pro IDE here.

So give it a go and let us know of any feature requests or bugs.

For those of you who love and cherish the classic Arduino IDE, don’t worry it will continue to be available forever.