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Trying to orient using this book and the first chapter is full of dire warnings and ominous lines about how everything is very complex. The opposite of most tech books that assure you everything is easy and step by step.
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Problem solving process in embedded apparently: Me “My hello world code won’t compile, the make file chokes” Book: “In the beginning there was chaos and god created the AM335x universe”
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In embedded, the dev environment is basically “civilization” All the jank of millennia of civilization packed into a board designed to fit into an alt OODA can
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Simpler systems are simpler to set up. I did tons of PCB design and embedded work with STM32 chips and it was generally pain free. But there is very little abstraction so if you don't understand every underlying transistor behind the logic systems it is a handful
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Would rather have a high barrier to entry when most of civilisation depends on you :-). SIL type stuff apart, this is really the reason that Arduino and MicroPython took off. Embedded Linux envs are more complex and lag behind but NodeRed does make things easier once set up.
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Embedded linux is pretty hardcore. If you are able to take a step back to learn the basics first, perhaps embedded firmware (i.e. microcontrollers) is a smoother introduction to it all