I gave this a shot a while back and it's as clunky as it looks in the screenshots, so about the same as the established industry.
Re:Arduino PLC IDE
by stefcoetzee on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:13PM
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SIMATIC AX seems to be a step in the direction of VSCode integration.
Oh this is interesting. Tia Portal v19 has this clunky capability in which you can export, edit, reimport all scripts of a project via a vscode extension that communicates with the Tia Portal process. All that effort just to have better autocompletion, but the export/import loop feels inefficient & some scripts just can’t be exported.
Re:Arduino PLC IDE
by airbreather on Friday September 06, 2024 @07:50AM
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Just about all PLCs have had export import for decades, more recently via xml.
Modern tech like electron? Qt might have been nice but win32 is snappy and dependable.
I wonder who's going to be the first to integrate something like VSCode in their dev environment.
The dev tools in the industrial automation industry are so depressing, luckily we have the excellent Ignition (from Inductive Automation) for HMI/SCADA development.