Thanks for the nice words.
Actually it is the Nuts&Volts series that convinced me that the Arduino is both brilliant and in danger because of its success. I see lots of questions being asked here and on AVRFreaks from folks seem to having problems with aspects of Arduino and wanting it to do things it wasn't designed for. Arduino makes many things very easy, but these folks are expressing a real need to do things that aren't easy to do on the Arduino. So lots of folks are wanting this or that added to the Arduino and I'm afraid many of the changes I've seen proposed will rip the heart out of what made Arduino successful in the first place.
So I am urging a lock down of the good stuff and then if folks want to expand and make new features they should very cautiously explore new options that won't dilute the Arduino brand. I'm sure the core team is already well up on this, but I just want to add my voice to those who want to keep it simple.
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