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by baybal2 2236 days ago
> But if you're building an embedded device that will be deployed in any sort of volume, a small application processor running Linux will make your life dramatically easier.

Can you name some? I think of most embedded network stacks as being easier than raw socket APIs on Linux or Windows.

Programming network on Linux only looks that easy because of megatons of ready to use abstraction libraries available.