Quote Originally Posted by tumbleweed View Post
There are literally millions of people developing arduino code and libraries. Compare that to the resources of melabs and I think it's pretty obvious who wins. Even if everyone who posts on this forum codes like mad it'll never reach the same level of market acceptance.
Oh I agree that being open source nothing can compare to it in terms of support and development. But then you have MikroElektronika - not only have they continued to develop the hardware (easyPIC / AVR range of development boards plus all the addons )- they are / have been developing their compilers, be that Basic or C++ . But then you are right, it's comparing apples and oranges given that MikroElektronika's turnover for 2016 was around £4,000,000, I suspect considerably more than crownhills for the same period based on the limited information available on the web.