3 years ago

Every once in a while, it is a good idea to take stock of the environment and the market around us to determine if what we are doing is what we should be doing. I’m a developer, not a prognosticator, so these observations are simply based on my experience in the development world, along with a frank assessment of what’s changing, to try and offer some advice to my fellow developers.

Considering the goal of embedded is to interface with the hardware, this is no surprise.

Given that the newer wave of prototype systems is well-supported by Python, it is easy to maintain, and has a broad selection of libraries (often, ironically, written in C), it has gained clout in the embedded space.

Python’s popularity makes it relatively easy to work in to your DevOps toolchain, with targeting of embedded devices making deploy and test require extra steps …