> I still remember my dad, an embedded developer in the 90s-00s, ranting about how many people were starting to use 'inefficient and unpredictable' C compilers

> I still remember my dad, an embedded developer in the 90s-00s, ranting about how many people were starting to use 'inefficient and unpredictable' C compilers than whatever assembly he was using I remember reading that C compilers were buggy/generated lots of instructions. He may have a point back then