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For example, it looks like Serial extends HardwareSerial, which extends Stream, which extends Print. But I don't think you can figure this out by reading the reference documentation on https://www.arduino.cc/ and it doesn't appear that you can easily navigate the class hierarchy in the Arduino IDE. They seem to go out of their way to hide the class hierarchy?

I guess I'm spoiled by modern languages that have automatically generated documentation, but it seems like there should be a more complete reference somewhere?

Brian Slesinsky
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    I use Eclipse with Sloeber plugin. It gives me super powers in Arduino world – Juraj Nov 07 '19 at 08:46
  • The point of Arduino is that it's targeted at people that don't need (or care) about such level of detail in the documentation. – Majenko Nov 07 '19 at 10:22
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    There's an addon to MS VisualStudio (VisualMicro.com) to provide you with a *real* IDE allowing to drill down the provided core libraries. – DataFiddler Nov 07 '19 at 12:00

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What I did/do when loading a new core is generating a doxygen visualisation help class hierachy in HTML. Although most of the core libs have no detailed doxygen documenation the dot/graphviz solves the problem without installation of other IDEs (which also have their specific problems, or need a lot of learning).
As an added bonus I can document my source code in a clean and transparent way available in most IDEs and OS.

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