[analog31]

It evokes the "real engineers don't use it" reaction, similar to any tool that's perceived as being of primary interest to hobbyists and students.

Some concerns are valid: Arduino doesn't have as much flexibility for digging really deep into things like pin and memory assignments and what happens when a microcontroller starts up. Also, the quality and documentation of Arduino support can vary from one MCU family to another.

There's a concern about the quality of libraries and code.

It doesn't support hardware debugging.

Granted, the embedded community has good reasons for being conservative, especially for critical applications.