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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by dTal on Sunday October 13, 2019 @07:35PM (#21244057)
Embedded device? It's a handheld unix computer.

Ironically, actual embedded devices are far easier to program, with Arduino. You type your code in a window (with all boilerplate and build system abstracted away) and click a button, and boom it's compiled and uploaded and running. This is because it was designed to be easy to use - ostensibly to teach young people, but in practice it means lots of hackers use it too.

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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by detaro on Sunday October 13, 2019 @07:37PM (#21244069)
It's not the default, but you can have that kind of experience with various toolkits for mobile devices too. I've seen workshops which kids left after an afternoon with their own simple "game" deployed to their phones.
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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by blueboo on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:06PM (#21274884)
And every Arduino-like platform there are dozen Processing, Scratch, myriad drag-and-drop app builders...

Yep, it's never been easier

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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by heavyset_go on Sunday October 13, 2019 @08:22PM (#21244279)
There is a lot of legacy from the age of "the hardware can barely run it, but we're sticking a Unix with a graphics system on it anyway"
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