> I can do multiple stack-allocated threads with priority instead of having to do ugly polling hacks in a single superloop.
I think most of your issues are because you haven't escaped the impositions of the Arduino runtime/execution environment, and are sitting on top of a layer of stuff that was designed for students.
The real value of platformio is when you move beyond this, accept responsibility for your executive runtime, and have full control over things. Its not enough to run into the brick wall of the init()/loop() abstraction and then complain that stuff is too simplistic - that is the point, after all, of the Arduino ecosystem. But platformio sits separately from this, and if you do take care to administer your runtime properly - i.e. bypass the Arduino student layer - you can solve pretty much every problem you've noted, better.
>Zephyr
Definitely interesting, but I don't like the idea of a DeviceTree blob, personally. This isn't future proof. But I guess everyone has different requirements for this, going forward. I've taken 5 projects, originally based on Arduino/Platformio, through 3 different hardware design iterations, and the sue of platformio tooling and methodology was definitely a key factor in the ease with which we did that.
I think most of your issues are because you haven't escaped the impositions of the Arduino runtime/execution environment, and are sitting on top of a layer of stuff that was designed for students.
The real value of platformio is when you move beyond this, accept responsibility for your executive runtime, and have full control over things. Its not enough to run into the brick wall of the init()/loop() abstraction and then complain that stuff is too simplistic - that is the point, after all, of the Arduino ecosystem. But platformio sits separately from this, and if you do take care to administer your runtime properly - i.e. bypass the Arduino student layer - you can solve pretty much every problem you've noted, better.
>Zephyr
Definitely interesting, but I don't like the idea of a DeviceTree blob, personally. This isn't future proof. But I guess everyone has different requirements for this, going forward. I've taken 5 projects, originally based on Arduino/Platformio, through 3 different hardware design iterations, and the sue of platformio tooling and methodology was definitely a key factor in the ease with which we did that.