Microcontrollers in the real world

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Processing

The 'Arduino IDE' was mostly not written by Arduino - it was originally the Processing project (see https://processing.org/). I'm told there is no love lost between Processing and Arduino. Many programmers don't use the IDE for anything other than compilation, as a simpler alternative to utilities like 'make'. You can use any editor you like, for example Sublime Text, or Notepad++ (two I use) or dozens of others.

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GNU Compiler Collection

The underlying 'Arduino IDE' compiler is not written by Arduino, it is GCC with extensions (some written by Arduino). See https://gcc.gnu.org/. But even that varies. For example if you are programming ARM micros such as the 32-bit Teensy family, it will be a different version of GCC with ARM extensions. The GCC compiler is widely used commercially and has been for many years. Arduino the company was smart to use it.

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