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by pjmlp 3066 days ago
During 2017, BMW among other car companies, and Sony have migrated from C to C++ as their main language for embedded development.

https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/succes_failur...

https://www.autosar.org/

"Developing Audio Products with Cortex-M3/NuttX/C++11"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8fLjWyI5nI

Unless you consider their devices Raspberry Pi kind of platforms

Of course with companies like Microchip still focusing on Assembly and C89, C is going to stay around for a very long time

What is done in C and macros, can be safer done with C++ and constexpr templates and better optimized, problem is to change the culture of those companies.