I'm not an ST fanboy and they're not a vendor I use, but they are very popular in the 32-bit Cortex-M space, so they're clearly doing something right. Meanwhile

I'm not an ST fanboy and they're not a vendor I use, but they are very popular in the 32-bit Cortex-M space, so they're clearly doing something right. Meanwhile, companies like Microchip that put effort into accessible documentation and tooling are getting table scraps.