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by pjc50 3066 days ago
Embedded devs always care. Managed languages with non-deterministic GC will never be popular there.

What embedded devs end up needing are:

- ability to shove bits directly in and out of a particular memory address

- ability to write interrupt handlers with low and bounded latency (i.e. emit a different function pre/postamble)

- global mutable state