Just like traders often used pidgin English as a simplified language to talk to non-English speakers, many Arduino coders use pidgin C++ to effectively code C in a C++ environment.

The Arduino Compile Phase So we’ve got C/C++ code. Compiling it into an Arduino project is surprisingly straightforward, and it’s well-documented in the Arduino docs wiki.

This programming language is based on C#, making it easy to learn. The Arduino can also read from an analog sensor, which can't be done on the Raspberry Pi.