[ironman1478]

C is the lingua franca for embedded and I think embedded is becoming bigger, both in community and in literal size. There are lots of new devices that are bigger than a small arduino (and even bigger than my pc from a decade ago) and require a lot of software written for them. This requires huge teams working on them, but the only languages available is C or in some cases some limited form of C++. Because there are new people coming to these spaces, they are taking ideas from outside of the firmware world and applying them to the pseudo-firmware world because they want to use them.

Thats my observation at least. I also think C is just so frictionless, that even if it is dangerous people will use it anyway. Yes there are a thousand footguns like people have said, but in the end you can get something compiling and running pretty easily, which is enough I guess.