Comment Re:No biggie (Score 1) 40
Arduino isn't about the microcontrollers. It's about the IDE and the community built around it.
Non-EE people may find it much harder to program up a communication systems with an external display compared to simply clicking on the display in their IDE, having it load the library, and then typing drawline(x,y).
That said PlatformIO would be a good contender, I'm not sure of any others, and I'm not sure how dependent it is on Arduino upstream.