I hadn't heard of Xenu <https://github.com/zrafa/xinu-avr>, a simple OS
created in the 80s for teaching. A better Minix? This link points to a
Git repo with a "version .1" port to small MPUs like Atmega328 (the 8
bit chip in the R4 genuine Arduino board) as well as larger ones. I
gather the Xenu culture by necessity isn't oriented toward fancy GUI IDEs?
Since Arduino was bought there hasn't seemed to be any big change to
disrupt use of the 1.8 or 2.3 IDEs. The design of 1.8 seems absolutely
sweet with respect to extensibility, giving allowing platform support a
lot of lattitude. I suspect the powers that be at Arduino are happy to
let it sit at least until pressure to monetize kicks in. In recent
weeks I managed to get the 2.3 IDE to interact with a Raspberry Pi Pico
2 via SWD (JTAG over two wires), but I find this debug support on Linux
very fragile.
I've never paid the dues to learn cmake properly but marvel at how well
it works to create make files. I can mindlessly copy files for cmake and
make then work pretty well.
But I confess I'm very fond of a dev flow involving vi, job control
(cntrl-Z, fg), make and gdb or some other effective debugger in a shell
session. On my current PCs the turnaround time from an edit after the
debug "aha" to a new debug session is small single digit seconds: very
much faster than the time it takes to click around in a GUI.
Pete
On 7/26/26 05:49, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 5:30 PM Pete Soper via TriEmbed
<[email protected]> wrote:
Created by Slava S.
https://github.com/slvDev/esp32-ai
Thanks for that! And it leads on to a question I've had: given
Arduino was borged, what would be a decent replacement for its IDE?
And, what would be the penalty of using vi and make instead just like
Xenu wanted us to do?
Pete
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