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by skrebbel 4094 days ago
> BTW, please don't use that word

Good point. I won't anymore.

Your experience matches with mine (especially point 1). It's a sad state of affairs, really.

Wrt point two, true, but these days there's a vanishingly small number of problems that can only be solved cost-efficiently on microcontrollers and C.

My favourite example is ASML, world market leader in chip machines, which sell at millions of dollars a piece and could be specced to have any computing power needed, effectively, and has a software stack of 30 million lines of C.

Running on microcontrollers and Sun Solaris computers.