One piece of advice for people who don't want to learn new things: Learn C++. That Bjarne interview might be fictuous, but in the last 20 years the language has

One piece of advice for people who don't want to learn new things: Learn C++. That Bjarne interview might be fictuous, but in the last 20 years the language hasn't seen any significant movement or change that isn't just "this boilerplate is now this one line of code". C++ is eternal (within the human lifespan) and will always be used in the embedded space. If it ever gets replaced by anything, it will be something that's just C++ with nicer syntax and the sharp corners cut off.