How's this affect the Arduino IDE and libraries? At this point those seem more important than Arduino-branded hardware.

arduino ide is pretty terrible anyway. Swap to your normal ide of choice, and start using PlatformIO. way better experience, and you can actually have all your important config in normal text files on git/etc.. instead of having to tweak UI settings in Arduino studio.

	▲	analog31 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Ah, good point, and likewise for adjacent comment. I was aware of those options, but have been procrastinating on making the switch. What's important to me is the library support, and ability to spin up a boilerplate project that runs on most chips, while providing access to vendor specific libraries when I actually need them.

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JohnFen 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You don't actually need the Arduino IDE. I haven't used it in years. You can use any IDE (or just makefiles) and gcc.

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dekhn 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The only thing of value left in Arduino is the API (which has been ported to non-Arduinos) and the drivers (of which there are hundreds; Adafruit is one of the main developers).

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seanw444 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why not just use whatever IDE you prefer and upload via the CLI?

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giantg2 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Certainly an option. The IDE is nice for beginners, which seemed like a major point to Arduino.

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andoando 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Get VSCode and install PlatformIO extension. Its way better

	▲	giantg2 39 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'll give it a try. Even if it is better, that's might not help noobs since there are tons of tutorials using the Arduino one. That could change over time though.
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lysace 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Someone needs to step up to fork and maintain it.

I imagine that Adafruit, Sparkfun and some other companies are highly motivated.