[ilovecaching]

Care to share the specifics? Embedded programming in of itself is difficult and tedious, and unless you really love it, professionally makes you less money than much easier forms of SWE. But I'm curious to understand if you are mad at embedded or mad at Rust.

[adhoc_slime]

In general I'm not mad, the learning curve of both combined was a lot and beat me down, and the rp-hal library is still beta and ironing out its kinks. I experienced a lot of frustration (and still do) around USB HID implementations. Simple things I thought would be given, eg sharing an rp-hal I2C bus was made tedious by rust's ownership rules.

I think the matter of embedded programming being difficult was just exacerbated by this. I'm just a hobbyist in the embedded world, and I really find it fun and interesting, but as a hobbyist I only have limited time to be working on my project and I want something to show for my time, besides rustc messages about my unsafe code.