It is interesting that while I think of myself as a generalist developer the vast portion of my career has been towards embedded and systems programming. I’m firmly a Common Lisp guy at heart but embedded tech landscape is the entrenched realm of C sprinkled with some C++ and nowadays Rust. However I had incredible fortune to work for the last few years on a substantial embedded system project in Common Lisp. The story starts in Western Norway, the world capital of tunnels with over 650 loc...