limiting != simplicity. the majority of the arduino environment has literally nothing to do with the complexity of getting your program onto the device itself.

limiting != simplicity. the majority of the arduino environment has literally nothing to do with the complexity of getting your program onto the device itself. you can have a very complex environment while still maintaining a very simple upload functionality for the device itself. there isn't any reason it can't be as simple as `dd if=/myprog.elf.bin of=/dev/arduinoserial`