There is no “Arduino language” and your “.ino” files are three lines away from being standard C++. And this obfuscation hurts you as an Arduino user and artificially blocks your progress ...

Arduino simplifies things by only using just one coding language. Here's what you need to get started with developing software for the tiny device.

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If Arduino were a real language, and you were stuck with digitalWrite(), you wouldn’t be able to use the language for anything particularly sophisticated. But it’s just a convenience function.