The famous integrated development environment for Arduino and compatible boards, Arduino IDE, has come out of its Beta phase of development with the first RC (Release Candidate) of the Arduino IDE 2.0 version. The Beta version was launched in March, and now it reaches this new milestone in its process, which is welcome news.
All who wish to try the new features of Arduino IDE 2.0 RC, you can now download it to test it. A much more polished revision and close to what will be the final stable version. In addition, not only have features been added, but other details are also being refined to improve the experience and eliminate potential bugs for the final release.
On the other hand, with its download and install Not only are you testing the latest in the Arduino IDE 2.0 RC, but you are also contributing your grain of sand to the development community, as all bugs reported in this phase will not be in the final version.
What's new in Arduino IDE 2.0 RC
Arduino IDE 2.0 RC is not only a step out of the Beta phase of development, it also includes updates and improvements very interesting. Some of them are:
- Now the IDE is based on web technologies like HTML and Typecript, leaving Java aside.
- Comes a serial plotter, to extract project data and plot it in wave form on a graph. You can even print multiple variables at once for monitoring.
- High performance serial monitor to help with debugging, monitoring the status of boards and projects, etc. This monitor has been redesigned to be much more efficient and with usability improvements.
- Are also supported other languages in addition to English. * (If you want to help with translations you can do it here).
Now we just have to wait for the final Arduino IDE 2.0 version, and start warming up engines with this RC to be able to contribute by reporting bugs and with your comments on what could be improved ...
Arduino IDE 2.x code repository - GitHub