[diydsp]

Working this industry my whole life, this brief article doesn't address scale. Embedded runs the gamut from sub kilobyte to multimegabyte, multi-dozen heterogenous architectures with het networks/interconnects. The level of arch described here is very nice to have but incompatible with program managers and customers in most - but not all - markets.

Most coding is done with HALs and platforms like STM32 make it easy with numerous portable APIs from libopencm3 and so on. So the chip shortage wasnt a disaster. 5-10 years ago was scarier but we have gleaned much info from general sw dev, from rev ctrl to sqa, security, unit tests, integration, regression, linting and my personal dislike: source formatting- no thanks for that one, guys! :)

Ofc im speaking mainly as a professional. There are still many prototypes on arduinos shipping....

Security tho is still a weakpoint, but blame short-term business needs for that 50%.

CI for embedded tho is still a huge opportunity. I see the wheel reinvented too often where a turnkey solution could win TTM and incr reliability.