Arduino Pro IDE (alpha preview) with advanced features

Live from Maker Faire Rome on Saturday, October 19th at 16.00 CET, Massimo Banzi and Luca Cipriani will push the button to release the new Arduino Pro IDE (alpha) — watch this space.

The simplicity of the Arduino IDE has made it one of the most popular in the world — it’s easy enough for beginners and fast for advanced users. Millions of you have used it as your everyday tool to program projects and applications. We’ve listened to your feedback though, and it’s time for a new enhanced version with features to appeal to the more advanced developers amongst you — while retaining continuity with the simple, classic Arduino IDE that so many of you are familiar with.

We are very excited to announce the release of an alpha version of a completely new development environment for Arduino — the Arduino Pro IDE. 

The main features in this initial alpha release of the new Arduino Pro IDE are:

• Modern, fully featured development environment 
• Dual Mode, Classic Mode (identical to the Classic Arduino IDE) and Pro Mode (File System view)
• New Board Manager 
• New Library Manager
• Board List
• Basic Auto Completion (Arm targets only)
• Git Integration
• Serial Monitor
• Dark Mode

But the new architecture opens the door to features that the Arduino community have been requesting like these that will be following on soon:

• Sketch synchronisation with Arduino Create Editor
• Debugger
• Fully open to third party plug-ins 
• Support for additional languages other than C++

The new Arduino Pro IDE is based on the latest technologies: 

Available in Windows, Mac OS X and Linux64 versions; we need your help in improving the product. Before releasing the source code to move out of the alpha, we would greatly appreciate your feedback. Like all things in the Arduino community, we grow and develop together through your valued contributions. Please test the Arduino Pro IDE to it’s breaking point, we want to hear all the good and bad things you find. We’re open to recommendations for additional features, as well as hearing about any bugs you may find — there’s bound to be a few as it is an alpha version after all!

Versions (released on Saturday, October 19th at 16.00 CET)

Arduino Pro IDE Windows v0.0.1-alpha.preview

Arduino Pro IDE OSX v0.0.1-alpha.preview

Arduino Pro IDE Linux v0.0.1-alpha.preview

So give it a go and let us know of any feature requests or bugs at: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-pro-ide/issues

For those of you who love and cherish the classic Arduino IDE, don’t worry it will continue to be available forever.