The future of Arduino

[jdurand]

Not sure how much this article can be trusted, but it seems for now at least that Arduino will remain pretty much unmolested. We can only hope.
https://www.eetimes.com/what-comes-n...s-acquisition/

I'm not sure how many Arduino users are really ready to go to bigger systems/AI. For one thing, Arduino teaches shoddy programming. I have a student I've warned about this, functions with no error checking, etc. I'm slowly moving her towards "real" programming, for now not using the libraries, talking to ports and registers directly. This year she'll be moving more into real C (and assembly) programming using standard IDEs.

But, Arduino is handy for the quick project or simple controller. It also gets people started, but it certainly isn't something I'd use for high end things.