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by rhmw2b 2230 days ago
I've used the Teensy 3.1 and it's more or less an Arduino (including uses the Arduino IDE) but lower cost and more powerful processor. There is also a way to build C/C++ code and run it on the Teensy. ESP is similar but has WiFi built in and Raspberry Pi is closer to a full blown general-purpose computer than an embedded platform. Software on the Teensy runs on bare metal, software on the Raspberry Pi usually runs on an operating system (Linux) and is not real-time.
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sgillen 2230 days ago
To be fair you can also build C/C++ code on an arduino. Although if you want to move away from the Arduino IDE/language, probably an Arduino is not the best platform for you anyway!
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blackfawn 2230 days ago
The standard Arduino "language" is really C/C++, is it not? (as well as all the C/C++ libraries that extend it) I suppose the "Arduino language" itself could be described as a library as well, or at least a C/C++ helper/wrapper abstraction for common tasks.
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sgillen 2229 days ago
You are correct, the "Arduino language" is just C++ with some special libraries, macros, added types, and an IDE that enforces some limitations on the programmer (though you can use the Arduino library without the IDE).

In practice using this library/ecosystem/whatever is different enough from "normal" embedded C/C++ libraries that to me at least to me it does feel like a different language.

I think most people call it a language out of ignorance or laziness though.

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neltnerb 2229 days ago
I thought they insisted on calling it "Processing"?

I just write standard C++ or C code and it compiles fine. Hard to complain about that too much if I don't care to use the extra features. You can just access registers directly even if you use the Arduino IDE and configure things yourself if you want.

But yeah, I'd personally use visual studio code if I wasn't going to want to use the arduino libraries anyway. It's not a great editor. VS Code probably isn't that great either, but it's good enough for the little coding I do (I mostly design circuit boards that frequently use these little boards as brains).

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bkanber 2229 days ago
The Arduino IDE is certainly a fork of the Processing IDE. The language is different: Arduino is C/C++, Processing is Java. But Arduino did take a bunch of UX (or call it "DX") from the Processing lang.
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jki275 2229 days ago
Just use platform io... it works inside VS Code and lets you use arduino and other frameworks if you want to do so.
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