[sevensor]

Maybe I'm just noticing it more, but I think there's more discussion of how to write C well than there used to be. I speculate that the attention Rust has brought to safe systems programming has caused an uptick in interest in closer-to-the-metal languages in general, and spurred C programmers to show that there are reasonable ways to write C as well. It may be an unanticipated result of Rust's popularity that the quality of C programming improves. (Or perhaps that was the plan all along?)

[Gibbon1]

What I've noticed is the lead time for all sorts of things used in small embedded systems has gotten terrifyingly long. What says to me that there is a lot of embedded work going on.

Also in the last 5 years people have abandoned the JVM as a end all be all platform which puts you squarely back into native code again.