Ask Slashdot: Best OSS Embedded Development Platform

AchilleTalon writes "As many of you may know, there are two main competitors on the Windows platform for embedded software development, namely IAR and Keil. By embedded development, I mean development for microprocessors like the well known 8051 and the likes, not mobile platforms which include a complete OS in first place. I am seeking for alternatives to IAR and Keil in the OSS world. Even if I can find pieces of code here and there, I haven't found yet a fully integrated development platform. Does it exist? What do you use?"

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Re:not oss but

[FyRE666]

This is the most idiotic thing I've read here in a while (excepting the AC posts). An IDE is not a "glorified text editor"; the fact you believe this shows you have little, if any experience of using one. I've spent almost 30 years writing code in various platforms, in various languages, and while I've used vi and EMACS in the past, would never return to that. Those text editors from the 1970's were designed for an entirely different environment, and using them in preference to an IDE is at best like tying one hand behind your back, and at worst a deliberate and willful waste of time and money. Sure, I still use vi to edit shell scripts and config files on a server, and that's where I believe its strength still lies.

Continue to be a dinosaur if you like, swapping between text files in a "dumb" text editor, ignoring all the productivity aides an IDE can provide, but don't try to kid yourself that you're being efficient, or even smart by doing so. Things move on - we don't travel the country in horse-drawn carriages any more, and we certainly don't need to be the janitors in our own development environments.