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You realize embedded systems engineers are real, right?
This makes me feel so much better after spending a morning banging my head against some wild pointer arithmetic, thank you much much! (Ultimately the pointer incantations were successful, praise be!)
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And if anything qualifies as esoteric, arcane knowledge, it’s embedded systems programming
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I’d say OS and driver programming is also in that category. It is the deep magic.
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True, true. I have a vague idea how embedded systems work. I have no idea how you even get started with driver development.
OS development isn’t terrible though. There are numerous books to help you make your own kernel and OS