On: A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”

[acutelittlebox]

i think the part that you're missing is that this is what it's like for him and people in similar regions where a huge amount of things aren't an option to begin with and many more things are far more expensive than in the US or Europe. a lot of the article is about how the best part about RISC-V is that the chips and tools are available to more of the world.

[mrheosuper → acutelittlebox]

I also live in 3rd country, and i know the pain.

But if you can access to RISC V IC/tools, you can access ARM IC/tools. The Chinese basically spams those ARM IC as many(if not more) as RISC V IC.

To me the author tried to hate ARM for no reason.

[ndiddy → mrheosuper]

Yeah you can get <$1 STM32 dev boards and <$4 ST-Link dongles off Aliexpress. At my last job, we kept a big bag of the ST-Link dongles in the office, then whenever someone needed to debug something they could just keep the dongle attached to that board from that point on. It was a lot more convenient than having a single expensive debugger that you had to connect and disconnect.