Comment Idiocy (Score 4, Insightful) 285
Will they also translate all the libs, the docs, the books out there?
IMHO This makes JS even less accessible and seriously increases the confusion factor.
One word of advice: "Classic Menu Style" for the launcher will help keep things much more traditional.
Yes, because default Windows launcher still looks the same... *sigh*
Even Microsoft finally embraced the idea that the "Classic" launcher is not the most productive design.
I will qualify this. If you are a programmer used to an IDE, Arduino sucks. It wes made to allow painters, breadmakers and other artists to make embedded elements, and maybe for a non-programmer, it may be the only (and best) thing out there.
You can use any IDE/editor out there to write c/c++ code, compile it with avr-gcc and upload it to the arduino-compatible board. It's as closest to the metal as it gets. No need to use the arduino style loop() or its libraries.
Arduino IDE is nothing more than a lousy editor, couple of C++ libraries and a simple source preprocessor.
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