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by bigfoot
5281 days ago
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I agree on Bjarne's opinion here -- it would be nice if C and C++ had merged at some point. Unfortunately, the reason why this hasn't happened is inherent: C++ is so utterly complex (the C++11 standard contains more than 1300 pages of highly compressed language legalese) that especially in the embedded systems domain many vendors just don't have the time and resources to build a C++ compiler. And being caught in this vicious circle, embedded developers still aren't (and probably won't be for still quite some time) accustomed to programming at higher abstraction levels than what C offers. This also allows myths like C++ being too inefficient for embedded systems programming to live on in industry. |
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You just proved that it is too inefficient... too complex to efficiently implement dev tools for use with (some) embedded device's to-market development cycles in a timely fashion.