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varjag on Nov 22, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Aren't There C Conferences?

Sure, I've seen embedded work done with anything from assembly to Lisp. But it's all marginal, trying to get into embedded development without learning C would be very career limiting. For example, not sure how many new projects are started in 2018 with Pascal on PIC but suspect not a lot.

Perhaps the most popular non-C development platform these days is Arduino on Atmel 8 bit chips, but it is still really a dumbed down version of C(++).

pjmlp on Nov 22, 2018 [–]

Actually Arduino is one way I hope that C++ gets more embedded love.

Either that, or certification requirements like AUTOSAR that have switched to C++14.

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