Unfortunately I've not had time to look at FPC's support of AVR yet, but I would like to say that while Eclipse's Arduino stuff works it makes Lazarus look ****ing good: the startup time is around 35 seconds and there's so much functionality that it obscures the basic purpose.
Yup. But my electronics are, as said, dspic based, but that Java contraption is slow too (but Netbeans based)
Make that 65 seconds for Eclipse to fully initialise: is this really the best that the "mainstream developer community" can do?
I've had an interesting exchange in the Arduino forum about an itch I'd scratched and written up, and am told that the IDE developers are refactoring a whole lot of stuff to make it easier for an arbitrary IDE to call the compilers etc.
https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cliI've been eyeing up the deficiencies of the Arduino IDE for a long time, and it occurs to me that it's so easy to knock a UI together using Lazarus that a moderate amount of work could produce something vastly better than the opposition.
MarkMLl