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What did you use to program it?
Oh nothing. I'm just theoretically interested in this part.
In practice, I'm not moving off of the AVR tool chain or chips. AVR does more, and I'm spending like $20 on PCBs in practice anyway so 1.5c chips and $1 AVR chips both basically cost the same to me.
Heck, $20 in various chips isn't very expensive for a project in practice.
AVR is good. Though, I have the XGecu and Microchip IDE (The windows 98 looking one). It does a good job with PIC MCs. Surprised there isn't a command compiler for Microchip ASM like CC. Someone would surely have made a linter and autocomplete for NVim as well. Anyway..
Older chips are made obsolete because of higher power consumption paired with worse performance. I am surprised it is viable to make them at all, let alone at 1,5 cents per. Obviously a lot of manufacturers clinging to old familiar roads.
Not long ago having own PCB design meant bank breaking, organ selling investment.
I really appreciate that I have proof that I am not able to make anything useful to humanity, and money is not the cause. To mineself I can be true now... 😞