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Re:VxWorks now with C++17 and Rust support, alongside Ada an... by exikyut on Thursday October 10, 2019 @10:20AM (#21214787)
Out of curiosity, what do you do now? Did you get out of software entirely? (I'd say I'm kind of slow too.)

I get the impression embedded is still a somewhat slow market. Or has that slowness meant it's dried up really badly?

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Re:VxWorks now with C++17 and Rust support, alongside Ada an... by devonkim on Thursday October 10, 2019 @03:21PM (#21218228)
I was young and am a mere hardware and server nerd at heart so I wound up down the cloud / DevOps / SRE or whatnot path unfortunately a little too early and it's been quite fun.

Embedded has been consolidated into a bunch of huge multinationals like Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, etc. and they're doing alright financially. It's just a very innovation-lacking industry compared to software, so you have a chicken-egg problem with investors. It'd be like trying to start a CPU company now when we've got Intel, AMD, IBM, and maybe one or two more boutique makers teetering on the edge of bankruptcy constantly.

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