I just can not understand how this thing works.

[Bndit]

I am engineer, and I may be sensitive to user experience, or just a bad engineer but I do not get this. I read ALL the guides available in the last 5 hours,

this

this

and downloaded all of these files that has 0 meaning, 0 explanation, only tones of libraries called "SDK". A kit for development should have 1 visible file, that you can click and start writing your code.

I can not seems to understand, in simple words, where are you writing the lines of code and push the button to program the chip ? the actual window/editor/file that does that ? where is this software ?

People build such powerful tools and makes long comprehensive guides, and yet a hardware engineer with a master degree just can't figure out where the hell I edit and flash my code ???

[MikeLemon]

Yeah having the same problem and I kinda regret moving to the Nordic semiconductors platform because of that some better video tutorial should be presented in youtube,

for example I followed this guide devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../ for using eclipse since I realy liked to code there when I was at the FRC robotics program and nothing still the program fails to recognize all the nrf related stuff when building and I cant find alot on how to fix it.

So I went ahead trying this tutorial on the Segger IDE and still the same problem didn't even get to the part when I try to flash the chip with my ST link.

[Bndit]

Isn't that amazing? I was thinking that Nordic as a European company will have some degree of UX. Want simplicity? you do not deserve to use powerful tools, go use Arduino, its for dumb people. You have to be dirty and scrappy if you want this privilege. A simple window with a flashing button. Whats so hard???

[Bndit]

By the way you can put Arduino on the chip, but in mass production you will need a bootloader and a complicated process. God. Engineers just dont get this, it driven me crazy.

[MikeLemon]

Todays computers and MCUs are so powerful the only limitation is your imagination in modern coding you don't even have to care about how many variables you have and how you name as you simply have too much storage and processing power that's why the programming languages other than assembly were invented. To get beyond that boundary of complicated coding yes it's less efficient than direct machine code but practically you can do more since this is closer to how you perceive the world. Now the same applys to this case.

[MikeLemon]

and the whole point is to not use an arduino I know how bad it is it's like 20 times slower than running a regular program.

[Bndit]

EXACTLY. I feel like they say to me "hey kid go away this chip is for dirty people who understand HW". You know as I already said, this is exactly how Apple was created.