Sigh…
So they want to sell AI shit buy buying the company that teaches children how to blink an LED. Well, this is bad news for both sides.
Fuck no, are you kidding me? This is disturbing, I can see all the good going away from Arduino.
Welp, it was fun while it lasted for Arduino.
I’ll do what I always do: sigh and add another brand to my “do not buy from” list on my pocket notebook, which was meant to be a single page and is now filling three
Thankfully it’s not like I’ll still have the choice with my “do not buy from” list on my pocket notebook soon in this economy anyway /s
This is the kind of acquisition where it actually benefits the community with tight integration and more financial support for open development, in the short term.
But once the Arduino community has added real value to Qualcomm, they will have already cycled through multiple executive teams post acquisition, and one of them will inevitably view all investment into Arduino as a loss center.
Then it’s only a matter of time before they paywall hardware functionality and updates behind a subscription, Arduino Pro+++.
I’m glad I switched exclusively to Raspberry Pi years ago. I just preferred Pico.
If you like Arduino you should consider switching to Teensy microcontrollers and PlatformIO. Although platformio works with pretty much any microcontroller. Steeper learning curve than the Arduino IDE though.
This! Teensy has been better for years now. Plus we have ESP as big players on these scene now too. Let them kill arduino. We will adapt.
I have done just about all my stuff on ESPs and PlatformIO even though I have a box of arduino
Yes, but very worth how much better writing anything tricky or fast goes.
Well fork this shit ;-)
Woooooo corporate consolidation 🫠
Looks like corporate are locking hardware… again.
