Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020

Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020 by contingencies on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @06:58PM (#21986652)

I must respectfully disagree based on research conducted within the last 2 weeks. Everyone claims their IDE is the business, in fact all the closed source ones are all crap, poorly documented and only allow you to easily taget a subset of platforms from a subset of development environments. For example, out of the box MBed Studio doesn't support many lower and mid range chips in the STM range. If you want to buy a high end chip with a MAC, it might be a great option (look at their hardware gallery[0] for an idea of what they're clearly targeting). It's apples and oranges. AFAIK most pro's apparently still use Keil, which is Windows only and expensive.

[0] https://os.mbed.com/platforms/

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Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020 by petra on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @02:57AM (#21989315)

// only allow you to easily taget a subset of platforms from a subset of development environments

I'm not sure the mbed is intended for products with a deep focus on price.

So less hardware selection might fit.

But modm.io does have support for some low end devices.

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Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020 by contingencies on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @06:20AM (#21990407)

modm.io looks interesting, thanks. Unsure I agree with the premise that using a value line 32 bit MCU implies a "deep focus on price". To me, that would mean something like EM78P173NSO MDT10P509S11 SN8P25D HR7P155 PMS150C or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_packaging#Glop-top

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