> C / embedded developers Embedded developers use C because they have to, not typically because they want to. And they have to use C because of proprietary too

> C / embedded developers Embedded developers use C because they have to, not typically because they want to. And they have to use C because of proprietary toolchains and existing libraries, among other similar reasons. Good reasons, sure, but not because C the language is so great. > hand-crafted data structures [...] More data, less code You're paying lip service to the principle of datastructures-over-algorithms, yet you're advocating for a language which has neither algebraic data types nor tuples? Come on. That's like praising functional programming but using Fortran.