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by auxym 1371 days ago
Today, probably not.

Historically? Definitely. It wasnt that long ago that bare assembly was still dominant in embedded, long after general computing. Somewhat obviously, assembly programs were closely coupled to the hardware.

Nowadays C is probably still dominant is C++ is starting to get widespread acceptance.

The best way to decouple the HW and SW is still a topic of active discussion from what I can tell. For example, https://embeddedartistry.com/blog/2022/07/11/how-our-approac...