[sai_c]

If you ask an embedded developer (as in bare metal, no OS), who is also into electronics, instant gratification and especially instant feedback, is what actually makes you choose this path of interest in the first place.

It's a matter of style and character how you cultivate new skills, and Rust wants you to cultivate them in a certain, some people are just not made for. YMMV.

[Shikadi]

I'm an embedded developer, and for me it's the opposite. Not saying everyone is like me, just saying not everyone is like you. I find regular software development to provide more instant gratification, I like the result of systems interacting with each other physically. Something about that just feels really cool to me. So much that I spent a few years as an FPGA developer, designing hardware and writing drivers for it, and also writing C on a soft core microcontroller running on an FPGA, touching registers that configure things, messing with i2c busses, I just find it all really amazing, in the same way I find car engines spinning at 6000+rpm and managing timings is incredible. Regular software development has faster results and gratification, at least from my perspective. And to be clear, I'm not saying you're wrong, or that your perspective is any less valid than mine