It is interesting that they got their start that way - I've been wondering if the peripherals for SPI, USART, etc. work the same way in their RISC-V boards as t

It is interesting that they got their start that way - I've been wondering if the peripherals for SPI, USART, etc. work the same way in their RISC-V boards as they do on STM32/GD32 chips. If so, one side effect of their mimicry might be that their RISC-V MCUs are much easier to get started with than their competitors'. I don't know how similar the two lines are, but it sure would be nice if you could just swap arm-none-eabi-gcc for the appropriate 32-bit RISC-V toolchain. I've been meaning to get some of the $5 Longan Nano boards carried by Seeed Studios, but the holidays are always distracting.