Configuring pins and peripherals with code is a chore, I use graphical tools for that.

But C has no problems abstracting away peripherals, just hide the register bits in a private TU and expose i2c_init(), i2c_write(), etc.

> just hide the register bits in a private TU and expose i2c_init(), i2c_write(), etc.

That's not a zero cost abstraction, unless these "functions" are actually provided in an include file. Embedded programming is often performance sensitive, so this can matter.

They certainly are when LTO and PGO are part of the picture.

It’s a chore because the alternative in C is to do things perfectly without the machine doubling checking your work. That assumption does not hold with tools other than C.