<div dir="ltr">I do agree this is a marketing ploy by Atmel, and they are a bit late to the party. I was using Atmel products long before Arduino, but I have not fired up the Atmel IDE in ages. I personally hate the Arduino IDE, which is the only positive thing about Atmel getting back in, but I have been happy with a simple text editor and make files.<div><br></div><div>And yes, the MS Windows only is a bad decision for many of the target audience they are hoping to hit.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Bill Farrow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill@arrowsreach.com" target="_blank">bill@arrowsreach.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">I don't think Atmel will succeed. They are trying to win back the hobbiest and educational market that is exploding away from them out of their control. The key concepts of Arduino was Open Source and code simplicity. Bringing out a proprietary IDE and importing your simple sketches into a more complex language and project format is probably not going to excite to many people.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Plus, it is MS Windows only :-( So no one in my household is able to use it.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Bill</div></font></span></div>
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