PlatformIO shows up as pioarduino

I’m not sure if this is an issue here or with pioarduino?

To be clear I’ve never installed pioarduino and VSCode keeps pestering me to install it but this is what shows up when I open Home:

Extensions say I have PlatformIO, but here this page shows up. This is very strange, and it is happening in multiple installations, both a Windows and Linux installation.

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I have the same issue. Tried uninstalling pioarduino and manually install platformio vsix but it still shows up as pioarduino. Some feature doesnt seem to work, that logo looks AI af… looks like a scam :confused:

This occurs if you’re trying to install PlatformIO via openvsix

pioarduino is a fork of Platform IO at https://github.com/pioarduino/pioarduino-vscode-ide

I think the purpose they created the fork was to solve a few out-of-the-box issues, and make it easier to install in Cursor and Windsurf (etc). It seems to only have a few minor modifications.

There are currently three forks that shows up in openvsix in Cursor IDE:

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It’s still possible to install the main PlatformIO in Cursor but you need to make some (relatively non-intuitive) manual edits. Especially if you’re using WSL in Cursor.

Now that said, there seems to be github activity to improve the main PlatformIO for an easier out-of-box solution to obsolete those forks, so hopefully the situation resolves itself (Eventually).