{"id":4180,"date":"2022-02-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/msalamon.pl\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2025-12-27T15:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T14:51:15","slug":"the-most-popular-ides-for-stm32-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msalamon.pl\/en\/the-most-popular-ides-for-stm32-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Popular IDEs for STM32 in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 2019, I asked the community of the STM32 Polska group on Facebook<\/a> which IDEs or other editors they use to write code for STM32. In 2019 we still didn\u2019t have STM32CubeIDE, so that ranking<\/a> is already outdated. Time to refresh the stats. I asked programmers again what they use. Here are the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most popular IDEs for STM32 in 2022 \u2013 survey results<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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In this comparison, I omitted SW4STM32<\/strong> and Atollic TreStudio<\/strong>. These are dead<\/strong> IDEs that have long not been supported.<\/strong> We really shouldn\u2019t be using them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. STM32CubeIDE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Link to STM32CubeIDE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It doesn\u2019t surprise me that the IDE prepared by STMicroelectronics took first place. Some time ago they bought Atollic True Studio and, based on it, created a combination of Eclipse and STM32CubeMX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is it so popular? You install it and it works. I love Out Of The Box tools, and I\u2019m not the only one. I use this IDE every day, as do hundreds of programmers in Poland and around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also use this IDE in the STM32 Course for Beginners<\/a> (conducted in Polish), with the 4th edition starting on February 16, 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Visual Studio Code \/ PatformIO<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Link to VSC.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link to PlatformIO<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided to combine these two environments. Visual Studio Code<\/strong> is an insanely popular \u201ceditor on steroids\u201d for writing all sorts of software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Millions of programmers use it basically for everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, you can program STM32 microcontrollers in it. You can do it in bare VSC, or you can use PlatformIO<\/strong>, which is dedicated to microcontrollers. You can write both \u201cin Arduino style\u201d and \u201cnormally\u201d. There\u2019s also debugging, so it\u2019s not a crippled solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To use CubeMX in PlatformIO<\/strong>, this plugin is useful: https:\/\/github.com\/ussserrr\/stm32pio<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It adapts a CubeMX project to work with PlatformIO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Keil \u00b5Vision IDE (MDK)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Link to Keil.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An environment straight from ARM. Supposedly the best\u2014at least that\u2019s what many users claim. It\u2019s not limited only to STM32. It can program all ARMs OOTB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has its own efficient compiler. Unfortunately, in my opinion it has two huge drawbacks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n