Visual Studio

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Originally Posted by marshall

I'll bite... why Visual Studio?

The Visual Studio compiler is much more powerful and easier to use... well easier for someone who uses it professionally on a daily basis.

Maybe I'm bias, but it has been so much preferred that we went through the trouble of writing all the code simulated in visual studio environment, and then porting it over later. As debugging remotely is a real nightmare and 10x more time consuming (that 10x is a conservative estimate, probably more time considering all the times we had to redeploy code).

Last I checked, visual studio 2013 and above can have an Arduino IDE environment, but I've never tested that yet. It could work, but then the trick would be to get WPI libraries built as well... or link to them from VS. I think it can be done, but I haven't really had a chance to pursue this.