When doing embedded programming, a serial connection is often indispensable, and for this a serial client is needed.

My first experience with such a client was minicom, but I find this overly complicated and non-intuitive. (Which is expected from a program designed to control modems...)

Then I tried GtkTerm. But ...

Yesterday, I encountered a very subtle bug that did not make sense and obviously was an effect of a memory fault somewhere else in my code.

rlnc_multipath: src/buffer_pkt.hpp:62: void buffer_pkt::reset(): Assertion `&m_buffer[0]' failed.

How can a reference to the first element of a std::vector ...