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by bobmcnamara 585 days ago
At least in embedded, often the tools suck.

Some ancient version of NetBeans leaking ram like a sieve until it brings down the machine, or a decade old version of Eclipse that can't pull in a newer CDT, running on a fork of OpenOCD with nothing customized for the CPU architecture running dog slow.

Sadly, it can be faster to reserve a GPIO, bitbang a TX-only UART, and get on with it.