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UNIX/POSIX clones and embedded still demand C for most workloads, so that is going to be quite hard to ever change.

There is some hope for embedded, when enough developers are gone, however for UNIX/POSIX it is impossible given the symbiotic nature of both, only when we get rid of UNIX clones.

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Thanks. I was genuinely curious. I’m surprised embedded still overwhelmingly demands C, but I’m guessing there’s a lot of inertia which you alluded to.

Mostly due to culture, there are hardly any chips without C++ compilers, and plenty of them have Basic and Pascal compilers available as well.

This is something that can only be changed with new blood bringing a more open mindset.

C++ has all the problems that come with C plus all of its own problems. Also, OOP is pointless.

C++ != OOP, while C++ cannot fix flaws inherited from C, at least it can provide types with bounds checking, and data types with type driven invariants, something that C will never provide.

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