It's exactly the opposite. Western society has gained too much humility for lazy, dumb, incapable people, low quality things, general degradation and even their own destruction. OK, but this is technical forum, so, talking about HAL, here we go...
Critical deficiencies:
- Not interrupt safe.
- Not thread safe and has no thread safe layer.
- Has buffer overrun/underrun bugs.
- Lacks processor and compiler memory barriers where needed.
- Wrong cache clean/invalidate usage on cores with cache memory.
Architectural and performance deficiencies:
- Bad interrupt performance, because of the same unsafe enable/disable.
- Full-duplex peripherals used only as half-duplex.
- Lacks asynchronous APIs for receive functionality.
- Lacks zero-copy buffering where it should be.
- Doesn't have necessary interrupt callback per peripheral instance.
- Does have unnecessary bunch of callbacks per interrupt event type.
- Interrupt callbacks implemented as weak functions, prohibiting building compiled libraries.
- Code is not modular and can't be built for multiple boards and/or configurations.
And here is proof to my "trolling":
https://community.st.com/s/question/0D50X0000AhNBoWSQW/actually-working-stm32-ethernet-and-lwip-demonstration-firmware
It's a few months of work for a team of one (me) in my free time on average 2-3 evenings per week. Try it and compare to ST's multiple code monkey team in multiple years generated non-working absolute crap-ware.
