On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 02:39:58PM -0700, Denny Esterline wrote:
> One aspect I found interesting was the "drag and drop programming"

When the desktop metaphor began, and files were shown as icons, and it
was possible to destroy hours of work with a slip of the mouse, that's
when I decided I wasn't interested.

My work systems have no files visible as icons; I've turned those
features off.  I've worked like that for 25 years, and yet to have a
good reason to adopt the feature.  Files stay where they are put, or I
use a command to move them.

> Apparently, whatever programming tool they've included on-board
> emulates a USB flash drive. Just save a hex file to it and the
> target chip gets programmed.

So the drag and drop programming of mbed and Micro Bit are irritations
because I end up writing a quick script anyway.  ;-)

> And just for the record - I'm about the most "anti-cloud" person I know.
> One of my favorite quotes is "there is no 'cloud', just someone else's
> computer"

Yay.

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