[pjmlp]

Agreed, however there is a big difference between stating that it doesn't work at all, and accepting that there are plenty of use cases where having a soft real time GC tailored for embedded development is perfectly fine, and actually does improve productivity.

Since you mention telecommunications, I would consider network switches running Erlang a use case of embedded development.

Other examples would be the Gemalto M2M routers for messaging processing, or some of the NSN base station reporting platform.

So while it doesn't fit your scenario, it does fit other ones, this is what some in anti-GC field need to realise.

This isn't an all or nothing equation.