Arduino grew out of a program called Wiring, developed by an institute in Bogota, Colombia, and at MIT Media Labs. The Wiring project developed an open programming language and integrated development ...

But wait! Before the Arduino die-hards leave, take note that PlatformIO can use all of the “Arduino Language,” so your digitalWrites and analogReads are safe (for now).

The robot can currently be programmed using MicroPython and the Arduino language. Visual block programming is to be added soon, but there is no exact date for this yet.