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by hi-v-rocknroll 743 days ago
Yep. Atmel/Microchip AVRs popularized by megaAVR ATMega328 toolchain favors their restricted C/C++ subset.

There are a couple of alternative languages that don't require a computer host to drive them:

Visual programming language: https://xod.io

There was Céu: https://github.com/ceu-lang/ceu-arduino

And one can always try AVR assembly if they're really curious.