One problem with embedded is how much variation there is across the board.
Articles like this hide this complexity by talking about "microcontrollers", but behind that innocent facade hide utterly different beasts like the Atmega (of Arduino fame), MSP430, PIC, SH4, and anything Cortex-M3-based, just to cite a few.
It's not just about the generic memory and compute constraints of the genre as a whole, but adapting to the specifics of each platform. Solved the platform/tooling for the ESP32? Great, but that doesn't help my STM32-based project.
To make a crude analogy: the familiar "PC" architectures are pretty consolidated (x86, x86-64, or arm32(Thumb), arm64), but they're like the primate clade compared to the microcontroller "animals" that range from the carpenter bee through the sponge.
Correct. Yet, it 'would be nice' if there were some toolchain that ran on all of those. Arduino environment is the closest thing today, I think. For what it is, it's not bad.
Articles like this hide this complexity by talking about "microcontrollers", but behind that innocent facade hide utterly different beasts like the Atmega (of Arduino fame), MSP430, PIC, SH4, and anything Cortex-M3-based, just to cite a few.
It's not just about the generic memory and compute constraints of the genre as a whole, but adapting to the specifics of each platform. Solved the platform/tooling for the ESP32? Great, but that doesn't help my STM32-based project.
To make a crude analogy: the familiar "PC" architectures are pretty consolidated (x86, x86-64, or arm32(Thumb), arm64), but they're like the primate clade compared to the microcontroller "animals" that range from the carpenter bee through the sponge.