Some of them come in DIL packaging (at least the little ones). The architecture has a GCC port and two free-as-in-small-glasses-of-beer commercial IDEs. The assembly language is bearable. The cheapest development board (with single-stepping debugger support) is $4.30.
Have they sorted out the Mac support? I have one and haven't been able to get the toolchain to communicate with my MacPro. and no way am I booting into Linux just to push firmware.
Some of them come in DIL packaging (at least the little ones). The architecture has a GCC port and two free-as-in-small-glasses-of-beer commercial IDEs. The assembly language is bearable. The cheapest development board (with single-stepping debugger support) is $4.30.