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But it seems embedded pays horribly, is not respected, and can be way more frustrating due to hardware bugs etc.
by jacknews 2y ago
But it seems embedded pays horribly, is not respected, and can be way more frustrating due to hardware bugs etc.
- 0x000xca0xfe 2y agoYou are unfortuately right! I gave up embedded development for the time being because it's hard and thankless work. But maybe for older people it would be ok? Embedded projects are usually more "traditionally" programmed and pretty slow moving.
- hiAndrewQuinn 2y agoPay could be better, and hardware bugs can be frustrating, but I definitely respect embedded guys a lot. More than most generalist developers, in fact, due to the atoms-adjacent nature of their work.
- jacknews 2y agoSure, but I mean that they are not so respected in the hierarchy within hardware companies, the way devs are in big tech, say.
- hiAndrewQuinn 2y agoAhhh, that makes much more sense to me. Dovetails a bit with the dick measuring contest folks in the hard sciences like to do about purity.