I am not sure what you are trying to say here. It comes off as you trying to discourage people from entering Embedded Development which is absolutely wrong. An

I am not sure what you are trying to say here. It comes off as you trying to discourage people from entering Embedded Development which is absolutely wrong. Anybody who is interested in learning/using C/C++ SHOULD absolutely look into Embedded Programming. That is where the "rubber meets the road" and gives you the intellectual satisfaction of learning/understanding "everything" (i.e. HW & SW). Embedded Development encompasses a broad spectrum from Application programming (eg. Apps in a Network WiFi Router), Kernel/Device Driver programming (eg. RTOS/Linux in the same Network WiFi Router) to bare-metal programming (eg. 8-bit etc. MCUs). So one really gets to know how to use C/C++ (the Good, the Bad and the Ugly) as the situation demands to solve a problem. All the standards are merely guides to follow (i.e. not commandments from above) which is only deviated from when needed.