Hi,

My question certainly stems from the imposter syndrome that I am living right now for no good reason, but when looking to resolve some issues for embedded C problems, I come across a lot of post from people that have a deep understanding of the language and how a mcu works at machine code level.

When I read these posts, I do understand what the author is saying, but it really makes me feel like I should know more about what’s happening under the hood.

So my question is this : how do you rate yourself in your most used language? Do you understand the subtilities and the nuance of your language?

I know this doesn’t necessarily makes me a bad firmware dev, but damn does it makes me feel like it when I read these posts.

I get that this is a subjective question without any good responses, but I’d be interested in hearing about different experiences in the hope of reducing my imposter syndrome.

Thanks

  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
    8·
    1 month ago

    I don’t have any free time because I have young kids.

    That’s a healthy thing to acknowledge.

    It’s a brutal phase for professional development, hobbies, free time, sex, basic housekeeping…

    It gets better as the little ones grow.

    • Croquette@sh.itjust.worksOP
      3·
      1 month ago

      At least, we know emotionally that it will get better with the second one haha, even if the day to day is rought.

      With the first one, it felt like we would never get to the other side of it. But we did and we will for the second one.

      I am eager to learn new things, so having so little free time is definitely tough. And the lack of sleep/energy makes it even harder.

      Thanks for the encouragement, it’s nice to be acknowledged by someone else that went through the same thing. We often forget that we are not alone and a lot of people got through it before us.