I mean I don't work there, I don't know what their corporate strategy is :) I would suspect it's just developer familiarity - they used to use a language they

I mean I don't work there, I don't know what their corporate strategy is :) I would suspect it's just developer familiarity - they used to use a language they named 'XC', which was basically C with built-in keyword extensions (like "par" :). These days they've internalized it into a library [1] so it looks just like standard C, but you still have macros like PAR_JOBS... [1] https://www.xmos.com/documentation/XM-014363-PC-7/html/prog-guide/quick-start/c-programming-guide/index.html#lib-xcore-prog-guide https://www.xmos.com/documentation/XM-014363-PC-7/html/prog-...