I have to disagree here. Yes, the Arduino is made for beginners and it is easy (to use). But it is not simple. Just a week ago I ordered a RPi Pico and made an

I have to disagree here. Yes, the Arduino is made for beginners and it is easy (to use). But it is not simple. Just a week ago I ordered a RPi Pico and made an also easy to use Rust toolchain for it: Compilation, upload and run in one command "cargo run"! Some advantages I noticed so far: - The installed binaries (rustc for arm-v6-thumb etc) are much smaller than the Arduino IDE. - Can be programmed in standard C, Rust, Assembler, or what ever you like! - Simply add some libs which are not even made for embedded systems and get them running instantly - Does not require any special uploading driver, just acts as a mass storage device - Supports a wider range of technical limits (such as logic voltage levels) - Far more performant while also way cheaper I can say that I am done with Arduino and for me this is the clear winner. Maybe your bad experience just boils down to using the official SDK, which I agree is overtly complex and feels like it was just made to barely function.