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Also, didn't early Arduino heavily borrow from another open-source project, "Processing"?

Processing was/is graphics-centered, so that's where Arduino's term "sketch" come from, if you ever wondered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Processing_screen_shot.pn...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Arduino_IDE_-_Blink.png

"Wiring", which constitutes Arduino's primary API surface, was taken wholesale from Hernando Barragán's 2003 master's thesis project. It was a fork of processing for microcontrollers and was not written by the Arduino team: Massimo Banzi, David Cuartielles, David Mellis, Gianluca Martino, and Tom Igo.

I have to dig around, I think I still have one of the original wiring boards from around 2006 (maybe)?

Yeah, the software side is basically only an IDE, a build system and a package manager an another system API (basically an alternative to libc). Which is useful for C++, but far from being non-replaceable.

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