[deadsy]

I think the enthusiasm for Arduino (and previously the Basic Stamp) is the excitement that newbies have when they can get something happening on a small embedded system via a simple, spoon fed development environment. I personally have never wanted to program Microchip parts in anything other than assembler or Atmel parts in anything other than C. I find Arduino's dev tools to be an annoyance getting between me and the hardware, so it's the first thing I ignore- but that's just me.

[ladyada]

then you will be thrilled to learn that the "spoon fed development environment" is C/C++ with avr-glibc!

[deadsy]

Yes. I suppose when it comes down to it I just don't like Java and I especially don't like IDEs. Vive la difference.