Innovation 2025 : Automation Studio 6.3 with Automation Studio Code Open Beta was released

Very nice to have OOP features in PLC environment. Thank you for that.

Some questions regarding this “new world” in PLC which I can’t find in documentation:

  • where can I find anything regarding interfaces or inheritance which is mentioned by Tommi Piiparinen in this topic
    → not interested in creating objects with “new” but interested in interfaces/inheritance or overloading methods to reduce complexity (e.g. interface “IDrive” which is implemented by several drive classes)
  • is it possible to develop libraries in AS Code with OOP and use these libraries in “classic way” AS Studio (for machine projects)
  • will be (or is already?) unit-testing for ST implemented or integrated into the C/C++ unit tests
  • will C++ get more OOP features (AFAIK there is no inheritance or interfaces)

Thank you and nice to see progress in PLC world