Arduino
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
5recommend
19warn against
Nov 18, 2025first mention
Oct 6, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“The boards are programmed in C++ through the Arduino IDE.”
retired software engineer with a microcontroller hobbyon “Ask HN: What hardware hobby would you recommend to a…”
“The main reasons I use it are because I don't need to write a makefile, and the integrated serial port.”
Works alone on small codebasesswitched from Emacson “Arduino Terms of Service and Privacy Policy update: …”
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“Arduino was a nice beginner friendly IDE for sure”
“I stick with the general Arduino API”
“dramatically better than the Arduino.org IDE”
switched from Arduino.org IDEon “Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no l…”
Caveats and dissent
“such egregious rules against tinkering”
“I'm surprised if you could even keep a real project of any scale manageable within the Arduino framework.”
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“arduino has moved away from that”
“both of these are hobbyist toys”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- The Death of Arduino? 14 mentions
- Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’ 10 mentions
- Arduino Terms of Service and Privacy Policy update: setting the record straight 5 mentions
- Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons 3 mentions
- Arduino UNO Q bridges high-performance computing with real-time control 2 mentions
- Best-selling Zigbee temperature sensors tested and compared 1 mention
Also written as Arduino IDE. Data: arduino.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 40
“program it using Arduino”
“such egregious rules against tinkering”
“I'm surprised if you could even keep a real project of any scale manageable within the Arduino framework.”
“The boards are programmed in C++ through the Arduino IDE.”
“You can write code using the Arduino IDE.”
“One of the first flight controllers he coded was in Arduino..”
“My experience is with Aruduino wiring vs Rust with embassy.”
“arduino has moved away from that”
“Arduino, https://docs.arduino.cc/arduino-cloud/guides/arduino-c/”
“both of these are hobbyist toys”
“now you've got the Arduino IDE around, hope it doesn't break!”
“We also had this recently with arduino.”
“Do you think arduino is better? lolno.”
“when some elements of the stack have incredibly onerous terms added to them”
“I remember having a harder time setting up a workflow that didn't need me to touch the arduino IDE.”
“much more to my liking than the separate Arduino IDE”
> To "force" someone to develop on a Chromebook is like giving someone a bicycle to become a race car driver. Lol, I use a Chromebook for development at work
“I'm a long time user of the Arduino IDE for third party boards such as the Teensy.”
“after using arduino ide for over a decade”
“I wouldn't even consider Arduino anymore.”
“you don't even need to do that with the right VSCode extensions”
“You can tell the Arduino IDE to use another editor, which is what I did when I used it.”
“The problem with the IDE is that it doesn't offer a gradual path to more advanced usage.”
“how Arduino has been enshittifying for years”
“The main reasons I use it are because I don't need to write a makefile, and the integrated serial port.”
“Which is useful for C++, but far from being non-replaceable.”
“Arduino was a nice beginner friendly IDE for sure”
“I stick with the general Arduino API”
“To me it reads like a corporate take-over of arduino. That's bad.”
“Who does the fork?”
“dramatically better than the Arduino.org IDE”
“the Arduino IDE has been replaced with PlatformIO in VS Code”
“esp32 can use the same Arduino library.”
“I believe the original humble board, and bare bones IDE, still deserve a place”
iirc the Arduino term is "cores", which implement the HAL for a different family of boards. Been a while since I looked deeper at it https://docs.arduino.cc/learn/starting-guide/cores/
“Arduino is inconsequential to industry as whole or even to hobbyist using it.”
“since there are tons of tutorials using the Arduino one”
“Arduino and related technologies have revolutionzed scientific instrument making.”
“never really got into their whole IDE experience”
“Less newbie friendly than the Arduino interface”