Hi, I’m a teacher in China. I teaching students C/C++ and MCU programming. For many years, I have been looking for an integrated development software until I discovered PlatformIO. It is so wonderful and powerful, and what’s more, easy to use and user-friendly. Now, instead of installing a bunch …

yes, the program doesn’t run automatically. You have to start it yourself. Regarding your question: I’m not familiar with Pio debugging. If you want to do native programming, it may be easier to just follow Microsoft’s guide on VSCode: Get Started with C++ and Mingw-w64 in Visual Studio Code .

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Using vscode+PlatformIO as an IDE for coding C/C++

wgt September 28, 2019, 11:24am 11

Thank you for giving me so many instructions, bertmelis.
Best regards.

VS Code IDE for C/C++ when PlatformIO is installed