Tooling for embedded development? Please back in my day you just didn't get any tooling even the programer was left to the manufacture to make. > It is kind of

Tooling for embedded development? Please back in my day you just didn't get any tooling even the programer was left to the manufacture to make. > It is kind of like demanding you understand and set the timing advance on your car's engine. Why on earth would you even want to know of it, much less fiddle with it? Developers are not end users a technical understanding and capability is to be expected you aren't talking about the tooling for a pc you are talking about the tooling for a microcontroller. A more accurate example would be the timing belt manufacture expects the car manufacture to provide their own tooling to put the timing belt on their engine, in the same way a pic manufacture expects you to provide your own tooling. The end user is whoever buys the device you build with the pic in the same way that the end user of a timing belt is the person who buys the car not the manufacture that makes the car.