[Gussy]

It's a huge shame that none of the existing ARM Cortex M3 Arduino-like platforms (Maple, Corduino etc.) ever took off. While this is mostly likely because of the projects not being officially endorsed by Arduino, it does also make you wonder if there is actually a demand for this higher level of capability. I have a bad feeling that offering a much more powerful Arduino will only result in people writing more inefficient code.

Moving into ARM territory was always inevitable for Arduino, it has just taken a little longer than it should have, because Atmel were a little behind the curve in getting their Cortex M3 offerings onto the table. What does surprise me is that it has taken this long for Atmel to step in and offer some support to Arduino.

[sliverstorm]

I have a bad feeling that offering a much more powerful Arduino will only result in people writing more inefficient code.

I'm sure the ARM-duino JVM & the Ruby interptreter is right around the corner :/