As designers, and as an industry, it's time to start coming up with development strategies for the future. We're fast approaching the end of our ability to tune and drag current development techniques along with the evolving direction of modern microprocessors. Maybe we've been spoiled. All help us get our product to market faster. Yet, very few programmers use these sorts of tools.
Most developers write non-embedded code that runs on PCs and workstations.
Somehow they manage without the cool stuff we demand. Though most of these applications don't service interrupts and respond to real time events, some do. This, folks, is the future of our industry. Too many companies short-change developers with lousy equipment and noisy cubicles while doling our millions in salaries. Raw CPU speed alone will make traditional embedded tools an impossibility.