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For anyone interested in the history of Arduino, definitely read The Untold History of Arduino:

https://arduinohistory.github.io

I think it's really appaling how the original inventor is (not) credited.

One of the more interesting side-effects of this is that, because the Arduino libraries were written by someone else, no-one involved in the project had any experience of porting them to a completely new architecture. As AVR has gradually become slow, outdated and expensive, this has had the result that unofficial Arduino-compatible boards like Teensy are often better ports than the newer official boards.

Here's an article on the topic: https://hackaday.com/2016/03/04/wiring-was-arduino-before-ar...

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