We’re so happy to announce the first stable release of open source PlatformIO IDE for VSCode v1.0.0
This is a massive release that addresses some of our top feature requests. We really appreciate all of the usage/feedback, so please keep letting us know how to improve!
Over 40 releases in “preview” mode for the last year
We plan to remove bottom Toolbar now. What do you think? it eats a lot of spaces and icons are so small. It was as workaround while we haven’t had ActivityBar before.
Nevertheless, you can disable it now from your settings.
Personally I like the bottom toolbar (also I’m missing other task tools before PIO Home, I really liked the style of creating and updating projects) and maybe it can be an option for some reasons.
When working with the IDE, I have always the Explorer open because I use new code analyze functions, where I can see errors over my hole project. The bottom toolbar is the fastet access for the most common actions (Build, Upload, Serial Monitor…, that the only nice thing on the Arduino IDE).
So, in your plan, I need first to go the sidebar and back for a simple task action, this is not a good idea.
I think things should be simple, e.g. PIO Home doesn’t make my life really simpler, but others users workflow of course. e.g. for MacBook Pro Users it would nice to have the task symbols in the Touch Bar.
A concurrency of different workflow systems will avoid frustration of the advantages for different user types (e.g. some users like shortcuts, others use the mouse in the menu others a mouse click in symbols)
So, please leave the toolbar as it was.
