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Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020 by etaioinshrdlu on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:08PM (#21985580)
The IDE is also spectacularly buggy, stagnant, and lacking so many needed features.

I'm not even sure to what to attribute arduino's success. I think they just made the simple things (GPIO and loading code to the device) simpler than anyone else. And even that is not done terribly well on an absolute scale. Think about how often new users encountered FTDI driver issues over time...

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Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020 by captncraig on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:18PM (#21985702)
A USB bootloader and a standard footprint with a line of addon shields. 10 years ago, the only choices I saw were to buy an uno or get a pic and somehow figure out how to program it with crazy dongles and things. It was an easy choice.
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