<story><title>Using a tiny HC32L110 ARM chip</title><url>https://spritesmods.com/?art=hc32l110&amp;page=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foldr</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s phrases like &amp;quot;some shady Chinese-language Windows-program&amp;quot;. There are hints of a certain kind of English language chauvinism throughout the article. It&amp;#x27;s not surprising that a Chinese product aimed at the Chinese market is documented in Chinese. This doesn&amp;#x27;t make it obscure or shady.&lt;p&gt;As an imaginative exercise, try replacing &amp;#x27;Chinese&amp;#x27; with English&amp;#x2F;American and see how the article reads.</text></item><item><author>zibzab</author><text>Looks interesting, although I am not sure if it is worth the trouble for hobbyist who can buy similar SOCs in much more friendly packages.&lt;p&gt;A commenter compalined about his &amp;quot;negative and accusatory language&amp;quot;. Where does he see that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sprite_tm</author><text>FWIW, I&amp;#x27;m more concerned with the fact that it&amp;#x27;s a Windows program (the closed-source-ness and seeming unavailability of the programming protocol makes it shady, imo) rather than it being Chinese. I&amp;#x27;ll modify the text a bit to reflect that.</text></comment>
<story><title>Using a tiny HC32L110 ARM chip</title><url>https://spritesmods.com/?art=hc32l110&amp;page=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foldr</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s phrases like &amp;quot;some shady Chinese-language Windows-program&amp;quot;. There are hints of a certain kind of English language chauvinism throughout the article. It&amp;#x27;s not surprising that a Chinese product aimed at the Chinese market is documented in Chinese. This doesn&amp;#x27;t make it obscure or shady.&lt;p&gt;As an imaginative exercise, try replacing &amp;#x27;Chinese&amp;#x27; with English&amp;#x2F;American and see how the article reads.</text></item><item><author>zibzab</author><text>Looks interesting, although I am not sure if it is worth the trouble for hobbyist who can buy similar SOCs in much more friendly packages.&lt;p&gt;A commenter compalined about his &amp;quot;negative and accusatory language&amp;quot;. Where does he see that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nebalee</author><text>Seeing as he appears to favor FLOSS software (GCC, Make, OpenOCD), the shadiness comment may as well be directed at the Windows-program part.</text></comment>