> I'll never understand why professional embedded developers just suck this up Had this sort of argument during an interview (I was applying for a junior embe

> I'll never understand why professional embedded developers just suck this up Had this sort of argument during an interview (I was applying for a junior embedded C developer position). I was talking about the fact that I had experiences building cross-compiler, that could come in handy with embedded development. The guy stopped me right there and said, basically: "Just no. Let's just not. We're not doing that here and have no intention of starting doing that". He went on to explain about it and basically it boils down to the fact while technically possible, anything outside the bsp (board support package, that is IDE + compiler/linker/debugger/programmer) is unsupported. The vendors just won't support anything that's not built with their tools (in retrospect, that's very reasonable). So the practical reason is support.