There's embedded and then there's embedded. The system I'm working on at my day job has about 1meg of Flash and, IIRC, 128k RAM. It was reduced in resources to

There's embedded and then there's embedded. The system I'm working on at my day job has about 1meg of Flash and, IIRC, 128k RAM. It was reduced in resources to save cost (disposable device). The one I'm working on at home has about 4M Flash and 256k RAM. One of them is making liberal use of the STL and I know both have Python implementations available. Tiny, memory constrained devices are still around, but they're a smaller and smaller part of the pie every year.