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For example, in the 37c3 talk "Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains" by the folks from Dragon Sector (I highly recommend watching it), they needed to reverse-engineer Tricore binaries, however they found the Ghidra implementation had bugs.
As for the PLCs, the IEC 61131-3 functional block diagrams transpile to C code which then compiles to Tricore binaries using an obscure GCC fork. Not saying that anyone would want to write Rust code for PLCs, but this is not uncommon in the world of embedded.
Also, bootc is a basis for the Universal Blue family of distros, especially Bazzite, which is very popular with gamers.
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Seems like they're moving to bare-metal, which has an obvious benefit of being able to tell your on-call engineer to fix the issue or die trying.
KDE is pretty great, though.
The #1 right now is held by Frontier over at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, with Rmax 1.102 EFlop/s.
That doesn't mean that it's not an extremely capable system, though. (And Fugaku's performance seems not that well reflected in the HPL benchmark.)
If I had to assume, they probably still have some limited sales, support and consulting (ex. schools with teachers used to old software? companies with unusual development environments?).
While looking for Mix Software, Inc., though, I found their official(?) YouTube channel with the introductions for their C [0] and C++ [1] courses uploaded 8 years ago. They definitely have that old 90's VHS feeling to them, complete with music, early 3D animations and everything.
It would seem that the MIX C compiler for CP/M 80 got preserved at some point, too! [2] I'd need to look into it, but this looks promising.
[0] https://youtu.be/ikTh2JQbkls
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In 2021 alone, it had 21.5M active users and it facilitated 758M transactions. Polish National Bank (Polish counterpart of the Fed) reported that in 2019, online transactions using Blik have surpassed in volume online payments using credit cards.
While not as "Redis-y", there are some decent KV-ish managed databases out there:
- Firestore - Cloudflare Workers KV - DynamoDB - Bigtable