Let’s face it, the C and C++ languages have a bad reputation. Hard to learn, obtuse syntax, lots of ways to mishandle memory; you’ve heard it, I’m sure. You might have heard scuttlebutt that the Arduino sketch language is somehow related to C and C++, but that all the “hard stuff” was taken care of for you by the Arduino desktop application.
The truth is this. Arduino sketches are written in C++. They use the same GNU G++ compiler that Linux uses, albeit configured for 8-bit ATmega CPUs. The Arduino application does handle some things for us, and as we make the leap ...
