&gt; If you know C, you will love Arduino.<p>Isn&#x27;t it the opposite? If you aren&#x27;t comfortable with C, Arduino has a simple enough API and good enough tutorials+documentation that you can still make it work.<p>If you <i>are</i> comfortable with C, just about everything is better than arduino because you&#x27;ll get debugger support and full control over all the goodies like clocks, charge pumps, DMA controllers, asynchronous ADC operation, pin multiplexers, USB&#x2F;Ethernet controllers, etc.