[Thiez]

Nice gatekeeping. Perhaps you could provide some concrete examples of how Rust is worse than C++ for embedded programming, when it comes to "understanding the hardware and leveraging its power through good architecture and smart thinking and understanding what the code you write will do"?

To me it is very strange that you would act as if Rust is some dumbed down toy language (not your literal words, but I conclude this from your MS frontpage example), while it is considered (not entirely deserved, in my opinion) difficult to learn with a very steep learning curve.

Personally I find programming in C quite annoying because of all the sharp edges (e.g. implicit integer promotion, the various types of UB) that you have to keep in mind. To me this distracts from thinking about good architecture, rather than promoting it.