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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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

A one out of ten. I consider myself the world's second worst programmer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

The guy who was using my name to make code submissions 2-3 years prior.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Odds are the worst one is still using Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You mean the worst? I don't know. I'm just hopeful that I'm not actually the worst. Fingers crossed.

[–] Croquette 1 points 2 months ago

Imposter syndrome is strong