12 points dacsson | 1 comments | 18 Apr 25 15:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.516s | source

I know that ~70% of embedded systems are programmed with C, lots of movement or at least motivation is seen on moving to Rust. My question is: why this languages are good for embedded software development? And overall what would constitute a good PL for this domain?

1. JonChesterfield ◴[18 Apr 25 18:04 UTC] No.43730442[source]▶

Assembly is the good language for embedded systems.

Allows precision and efficiency, easily work around platform bugs, don't need to fret about building compilers for them.

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What would constitute a "good" programming language for embedded systems?