I don't know that « being modern » should ever be a primary concern. Especially when it comes to embedded where stable features and APIs are important. It's la

I don't know that « being modern » should ever be a primary concern. Especially when it comes to embedded where stable features and APIs are important. It's largely the realm of C, with some industries working in Ada/SPARK. In terms of its profile, Rust fits the bill for being a good system/embedded programming language some day, but I don't know if it's mature and stable enough yet to be what you'd pick for a really serious job. As for C++, I don't really see the point if you don't have technical debt.