I've spent most of my career in embedded systems, occasionally coming up for air to write a webapp or desktop application or even a mobile app. I find that the

I've spent most of my career in embedded systems, occasionally coming up for air to write a webapp or desktop application or even a mobile app. I find that the devs in those spaces tend to regard working directly with hardware as being akin to magic. It's not surprising: very few developers these days are working on bare metal, so the work they do seems weird and out there, even though for us it's just another day at the office.