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		blihp on April 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Modern C++ Won't Save Us Historically speaking, you didn't. It is only relatively recently that microcontrollers have become powerful and spacious enough for that to be an option.

mokus on April 23, 2019 | [–]

I remember a time when folks sighed wistfully at the idea of being able to afford wasting cycles and memory on C in embedded...

shakna on April 23, 2019 | [–]

Depends what you mean by recent. Ada's been on microcontrollers for more than a couple decades.

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