A popular IDE for Arm-based MCUs from various vendors to use for C++ embedded programming

Hi all,

As a C++ programmer I would like to start using it in the embedded world. For that I wish to be familiar with a popular IDE on which I can write projects for ARM-based MCUs, from different vendors, be it of ST or others, and get help when running across a problem.

I've some titles in mind such as: IAR and Keil. What are your ideas, please?

Thanks.

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Andy Neil over 3 years ago +2

Ary said: IAR and Keil Both of those are paid-for commercial products - do you have budget for that? Both offer free evaluations for you to try out (with certain limitations, of course) Note that...
Christopher Seidl over 3 years ago in reply to Andy Neil +2

Hello Ary, I have asked the community owner to move the thread, as your original forum was definitely not the right place. Unfortunately, we have no generic IDE forum, so I think that this is the best...
Christopher Seidl over 3 years ago +1

Hello Ary, being the product manager of Keil MDK, I'm of course a bit biased, but I think you will like MDK because of the Arm Compiler 6 that we're using under the hood. It supports most of the latest...

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0 Andy Neil over 3 years ago in reply to Andy Neil

Do you need/want a cross-platform IDE?

Keil is Windows-only (not sure about IAR).
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