False. The ideal IDE will reflect personal/organizational preferences. A particular IDE that fits well into one team or workflow may not be suitable somewhere else.
False. Many of the freely available IDEs are well suited for professional embedded system development.
False. Vendor-supplied IDEs will often vary widely in their quality. Be careful of getting too tightly bound to a vendor's IDE, especially if you prefer to use MCUs from other vendors.
False. At a minimum, we would expect software-generated code to be syntactically correct the first time. Beyond this, the code generation is only as good as the frontend supplying it, which tends to evolve more slowly than the underlying code bases (so you'll still need to write in customizations later on).
False. The IDE for this book was selected based on cost and only considered compatibility with STM32 devices.
Device selection, hardware bring-up, and middleware integration. Why it is useful in each of these areas is covered in the Considering STMCube section.
