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Embedded development
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2020–2025), in 8 threads.
People raised many different problems with Embedded development, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 8 complaints
- Horrible IDE forces frustrating clicking through its interface for simple tasks2025-06-15
- Optimized code is hard to unwind back to something useful to inspect2025-03-28
- Typestate abstractions make low-level register work hard to map back to datasheets2024-03-05
- Waiting up to two minutes to see code changes slows development and derails thinking2023-08-18
- Inconsistent command syntax and identifier formats make CLI hard to use2021-11-24
- Appliance electronic UIs are cumbersome to use, such as programming VCRs2021-11-06
- Decimal DMS output format is unlabelled and undocumented, so users must guess the coordinate system2020-10-30
- Vendor IDEs bundled with embedded SDKs force a long learning curve2020-09-23