Yep. When I got an Arduino I was a bit disheartened at first to find people only talking about the Arduino IDE for programming it. I found a few custom makefiles and was half way to installing my own avr toolchain when I found platformio. I don't find joy in manually installing toolchains any more so it was perfect. I was up and running in minutes.

Although they don't mention it (maybe they should) I used pipx [0] to install platformio. It's the best way to install a Python app.

[0] https://github.com/pipxproject/pipx