As a software developer who has been doing hardware for a while I have to say I'm both unimpressed with the toolchains for embedded and the kind of software dev

As a software developer who has been doing hardware for a while I have to say I'm both unimpressed with the toolchains for embedded and the kind of software developers produce. Honestly: it is like you shed 30 IQ points and went 25 years back in time. Of course embedded sucks and is hard: people think this brittle, shitty mess is a sign of cleverness and that this is how it should be. Don't shit on Arduino for being old tech and attracting the plebs. It contributes to increasing the size of the audience which might in turn mean the embedded world becomes more professionalized when it comes to software. Because it sure as fuck is no fun to rewrite stuff all the time because the embedded industry tends to hire shit software people.