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

  • KissakiEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    By any chance, do you use a niche language that has only two programmers?

    • Professorozone@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      Nope. I’m just that bad. I feel like I have a logical mind but it just seems like the command don’t do what I think they will, won’t operate on a certain type of variable or Holy crap I forgot a friggin space or semi-colon or something.

      Languages in order of proficiency: C++ HTML/CSS Matlab Basic Fortran (1 class taken)

      But when I say proficient I seriously mean looking stuff up on the internet for every single line. And I haven’t used Basic in decades.