retrolefty:
I don't use Arduino boards or the IDE for serious projects.
Hear, hear!
Smacks of elitism, but I would assume you wouldn't mind if others do their serious projects on same.
Hum, I guess "serious projects" means industry/commercial prototyping and not "your serious hobby projects". We are a few that get to work with embedded systems and use a lot of alternative software and hardware. I hope that whatever the scope of the project we have a set of tools to choice from. And we do it for fun and learn something new in the process.