A) Yet another example of why state machines need support directly in programming languages.
B) Look at salary for software engineer in semiconductor company then look at salary for software engineer at FAANG. Then ask where all the decent programmers are going to go.
This. I really wish I could be workikg in hardware, but the salary incentive is just there. Now I am stuck doing backend job to afford life and my low level and hardware hobby (reverse engineering games and firmwares, emulator, fpga stuffs), things that are magnitudes harder than making an api that put stuffs in DB and kafka
B) Look at salary for software engineer in semiconductor company then look at salary for software engineer at FAANG. Then ask where all the decent programmers are going to go.