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by Espressosaurus 2282 days ago
Yeah, I'm trying to reconcile their objectives against a several minute build time (for just the deepest embedded target) up to a 15 minute build time (for the driver at the next level up) or even (god forbid) the top level target, which is a multi-hour build. And you want to kick that off every time I save one file? Are you nuts?

And then pushing it to a target and testing it. Again, are you nuts? I work in the real world, with physical devices that can and will break if I misuse them. Blindly flashing my latest unfinished change is a great way to wreck equipment, even if it happens to compile.

Maybe it makes sense for something like the MCU on a network switch. But it doesn't sound like something I want anywhere near any codebase I'm committing to.

Handling the dependency management and environment is nice though. That part is absolutely a low-grade irritation that would be nice to get rid of.