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Indeed, if you do embedded development it's somewhere between hard and impossible to avoid Windows, although it's still a horrific platform for software develop
by tempodox 5y ago
Indeed, if you do embedded development it's somewhere between hard and impossible to avoid Windows, although it's still a horrific platform for software development compared to Linux or even macOS. Many tools are Windows-only or Windows-first.
- anitil 5y agoI am the 'grep' guy. If my colleagues can't find something because eclipse said no, they ask me to find it.
- tempodox 5y agoSo you've got the island of Unix in a sea of Windows?
- jmrm 5y agoTotally true. I have seen even how some companies dropped supporting some of their hardware in Linux without any reasonable cause or problem (some models of TI MSP430), and having to use third party tools in order to continue working in Linux.