I agree. I've been programming embedded systems of all sizes from 8-bit CPUs with 500 bytes of ROM to systems powered by 64-bit desktop processors for the bette

I agree. I've been programming embedded systems of all sizes from 8-bit CPUs with 500 bytes of ROM to systems powered by 64-bit desktop processors for the better part of 30 years and I disagree with most of his post. When I start a project with an STM32 microprocessor, I don't start by digging into the hundreds of pages of data sheet and bit twiddling each register. I start up the STMCube tool and specify what peripherals I need on which pins and let the tool configure the registers correctly. If I need better performance than it provides, then I start tweaking bits. There is rarely any benefit to making things harder on yourself. I use C++ in embedded systems because it makes things easier to abstract than C does. Hell, I've seen people basically recreate concepts like polymorphism in C because they were on a CPU that didn't have a good C++ compiler. I feel like all the lessons learned in desktop programming over the decades are struggling to find a foothold in the embedded world.