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Also with minimal c++ you can fix almost all the issues with C and people in embedded who are new overlook it all the time for fancier things like rust/zig/whatever which would force a complete thought process change. Luckily I've been coding away with C++ as a better C for decades in embedded projects. It does require some knowledge of what's going on underneath classes, inheritance, basic templates, etc., but it's all very doable. I generally avoid RTTI and exceptions for example.