I get asked sometimes why I do this. I’ve been an engineer for 30 years and programming embedded systems for most of that time. Sure, I’ve taken occasional side-treks into building a mobile app here and there. I’ve built a couple of web applications, including a pretty complex one for managing gym workouts, but I keep coming back to Embedded.
Why?
It’s FUN, that’s why. I love writing code that makes things move, or turning little (or huge) blinky lights on and off. I like to regale people with the stories of the times something caught fire, or the weird bug where the machine would “fix” itself, or how we almost had a massive recall due to some obscure failure that only raised its head years after a machine was in the field.
Embedded systems are fun to write (yeah, I’m deliberately ignoring the nights of frustration searching for some apparently random failure) and the end results are usually something you can actually put your hands on.
Try that with your React frontend!
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