[archerx]

I like making things (air quality monitors, web nfc login, automated garden, power monitor and etc) with microcontrollers like the Raspberry Pi Pico, the only real choices are C/C++ or some flavor of Python. I really do not like Python, it rubs me the wrong way for some reason and also I can find libraries for all the components/sensors in C/C++.

It's not so bad. Manipulating strings is a pain in the ass so everything becomes a char and managing types is so annoying, especially dealing functions that could easily take an int or float, you either have to make a template or different versions of the function for each type. This makes me appreciate dynamically typed languages a lot. Those two issues are the only problems I seem to have, everything else has been easy and breezy

Besides those two things it's pretty nice. My code is a bit verbose because I'm not that great at it but I'm sure I could reduce the lines of code in my projects (the biggest one has 4000+ lines of code, but it does a lot) by using structs and more loops, but that's mostly a skill/experience issue.