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I take something very different from the grand-parent post: the language requires you to get the design mostly correct to even compile. Unexperienced developers won't be able to come up any non-trivial new designs of their own, but can reuse existing code and even experienced developers have to fight the language to get a prototype stood up, but once they've working code it's more reliable. Not every line of code could accidentally reconfigure your PLL or voltage regulator just enough to drive you insane debugging a glitching chip.