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That's what the interns were trying to do. Get a push button to a LED working, on a Xilinx SoC, with the Vivado IDE. They couldn't figure it out in days.

I don't blame them. I tried and couldn't get it working in a day either. We were lucky we found another guy in the company who worked with that board on a different project. He showed us and he had extensive notes to get the environment working.

Embedded development really sucks.

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Not all embedded. Thankfully there is a sort of standard embedded mcu arch showing up via arm (would love risc v but I'll take what I can get). This has support via mainline clang/llvm and gcc, and isn't much work to get a more modern setup going via cmake, c++17, and clion.

But the amount of people who are still going the raw c route for often times unfounded reasons (c++ is slower or has more bloat), prefer one large c file, don't do code based testing, etc, in embedded is staggering.

And for more niche areas (like FPGA) it's extremely behind the times. Not to say c is behind the times, it has its time and place, but 99% of the time they aren't bale to properly articulate it.

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