[zild3d]

I didn't glean that the author is implying UML influenced language choice, just that UML vendors tried to sell to C developers.

But to answer your question, C++ is gaining a larger foothold in embedded if anything. More and more libraries are written in C++, and it's becoming more supported in the various toolchains.

From a very recent hackaday article - "Modern C++ allows us to write cleaner, more concise code, and make the code we write more reusable. The following are [...] new features of C++ that don’t add memory overhead, reduce speed, or increase size because they’re all handled by the compiler [...] after reading this you’ll be more aware of the newer features as we start to see them roll out in Arduino code."

http://hackaday.com/2017/05/05/using-modern-c-techniques-wit...

And also, because I was poking around their github today, here is Flybrix's source code, a lego-drone startup writing C++ on a Kinetis K-20 microcontroller (100 MHz ARM Cortex-M4). They use the teensy bootloader, which is why you see a mix of Arduino and C++ files

https://github.com/flybrix