[sdiy] Freescale announces a new ARM Product based upon Cortex A5 and Cortex M4

[Gordon JC Pearce]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 16:34:48 +0100
Andre Majorel <aym-htnys at teaser.fr> wrote:

> On 2011-10-31 19:55 -0400, Bruce Duncan wrote:
> 
> > ARM development tools seem to be aimed at big companies with
> > unlimited R&D budgets unless of course you have unlimited time
> > for Linux.
> 
> I've always viewed time spent learning Unix as an investment.
> Not many other operating systems you could have learned in the
> seventies and still use today.

I think you probably waste more time with Windows, trying to develop on whatever convoluted system the manufacturer decides that you must use.  Not to mention all the time wasted waiting for the IT guy to come along and reboot your driver or update your virus, or whatever it is they do.

It's particularly amusing that nearly all of these Windows development toolchains basically take gcc and then wrap some complicated, messy, badly thought-out GUI around it which just makes it harder to use.  Why not just stick with a sensible editor, a sensible debugger and a sensible set of buildscripts?  Make life easy for yourself.  Do it in Linux.

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Gordon JC Pearce MM0YEQ <gordonjcp at gjcp.net>