Bluetooth Developer Studio vs nRFgo Studio

[Punit]

I am just beginning to develop with BLE.I came across the nRFgo Studio through Nordic and BDS through the bluetooth SIG.

1]What are similarities/differences between the two?

2]Which of the above is more mainstream and how do they make BLE development easier if one doesn't want to go too much in detail with writing code?

I am ok with coding as well, but open to trying tools if they make development faster and error free.

[Anders Strand]

I agree with Bill on all the above. In my experience, BDS can be nice for learning and creating profiles. I would not expect the generated code to run flawlessly out of the box though. nRFgo studio can be used to create profiles for nRF8001. For the nRF5 series, it is only used to flash softdevices, bootloader and applications.

If you are new to ble and nordic, check out the getting started page, and the tutorial section