[Espressosaurus]

constexpr is great. I can finally do most of the compile time computation that previously required template metaprogramming, and it's much more readable by comparison. C++17 makes it much more ergonomic to use too over C++11. I can't wait for us to finally upgrade our toolchain to take advantage of C++20.

If you're in embedded and you're not pushing everything you can into constexpr, you're missing out on correctness and code size benefits.

[mhh__]

Doing stuff at compile time is good (although the compiler can do 99% of it anyway its nice to have guarantees), C++ just got it wrong.

[Espressosaurus]

It could certainly be better, but in a world where my options are C, C++, or assembly, I pick C++ every day.

I do keep hoping for something else to get big enough we can use it because C++ sucks, but is still better than the alternatives we can use.

[titzer]

Virgil doesn't have all the backends for the diversity of embedded ISAs out there, but the first version compiled to C and ran in as little as dozens of bytes of memory (on 8-bit AVR). Nowadays I am not doing embedded systems, otherwise I'd write more backends.

[mhh__]

C++ is much better than C. Personally I use D everywhere I would've previously used C++.