

In this default configuration state the intellisense is useless, everything that you use from the various Arduino libraries will be underlined as a problem, so you either have to turn it off, or fix it.Įven the Arduino Blink test code shows intellisense problems. The "Arduino:Initialize" command also enables intellisense but does not properly configure all of the paths required for it work correctly. vscode directory is created along with some config files. ino file to create, you choose the board type and then the. The "Arduino:Initialize" command configures the workspace, after asking for the name of the. The Arduino extension has several commands available in the command pallet which can be accessed by pressing F1 When looking for a good alternative to use the Arduino editor, I noticed that there was an extension available for Arduino development as well the C/C++ extension, and both of them are developed by Microsoft.īy installing the following you can develop for the Arduino on your Mac: NET Core and the light weight "Visual Studio Code" editor there was less need to use Windows, some time after that the full Visual Studio IDE was released for the Mac.

Ever since moving over from a Windows laptop to a MacBook as my everyday development machine, I have had to run Windows inside a VM to be able to use Visual Studio Pro which I used for all.
