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I made an offhand remark about wanting a Linux-compatible IDE in a Cypress survey for educational users a few years ago. Surprisingly, I received a detailed response from a senior manager about some of the reasons that they've stuck with a Windows-only system. They were well aware of the interest from Linux users, but had made a business decision to focus on making their IDE work really well, even if only on one OS.

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I generally understand the motivation of these companies, but damn I really hate that they all build IDEs. I wish they would focus on command-line tools or libraries and integration with (say) eclipse for those that really want an IDE. Having a different half-assed IDE for each hardware platform makes for a frustrating day at work

Build automation for embedded systems is such a PITA. My previous job we had a build step that used AutoHotKey to click through the manufacturers 'proprietary tools'. You can imagine how reliable that was

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