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    I always use USBasp. Commented Nov 23, 2016 at 10:07
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    Voting to be "opinion based", basically any ICSP programmer for AVR should work. I also like the USBasp and have never had any troubles with it (even when bought for around 5$ from e-bay). It's very much of a shopping question, is very broad (since there are a lot of programmers, and ways to program) and opinion based, since everyone has his own thoughts on reliability of some programmers. Commented Dec 23, 2016 at 8:39
  • Yes, to some extent; however, I was hoping for a certain type of answer. For example, a "Use A because it offers X, Y, Z, even though it suffers from U, V, and W." Commented Dec 23, 2016 at 18:19
  • Currently the Arduino.cc page has nothing about why I should choose one programmer over the other, or even which programmers are actually compatible with their boards (it looks like most of the time the MEGA, as specifically addressed in this question, isn't compatible). Commented Dec 23, 2016 at 18:21