[vinnymac]

As someone who doesn’t write C regularly, or work in those areas, I am curious if you wouldn’t mind explaining how you arrived at this conclusion?

Are you just hinting at the fact that these industries are slow to evolve, or is it something specific about the languages?

[johnx5c]

Aside from the immaturity of the talent pool and tooling I mentioned in another comment, I think the embedded domain is incredibility slow to change.

My team have in the last decade spearheaded initiatives like adopting Agile, C++ (subset) use, Git (as opposed to SVN/proprietary) and extensive use of modern code hosting and CIs and we've met with a lot of resistance in our company (and those we work with). I've also interviewed lots of experienced embedded engineers, e.g. automotive, who have never heard of Agile or used Git.

I think it's a fear of change (risk) and also that the embedded engineering domain is so closely tied to hardware development, which is even slower to change.