[pjmlp]

Sorry about that then.

Surely I know that, but there is this image being sold that C is the only option, when those companies that I have listed are in business for at least 20 years now.

I also know there are a large amount of people in the trade that have zero regard for writing secure C code, despite the availability of tooling to help in such regard.

Which is getting worse now that those systems are being plugged into the Internet.

[varjag]

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]

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.