There is a massive shortage of such embedded c developers coming it seems… which is tricky as for a lot of these components you’re legally required to be able to provide patches for the lifetime of the product, which could be decades. I worked for a company who once had to get a vic-20 out of retirement to provide a patch some 25 years after the code was shipped!

Let me guess, they were probably not Javascript developers trying to convince thier boss to use Svelte over Vue or Angular.

Analog programmers are typically much older. Last job worked at a production plant, and the engineers came in, worked a project, then enjoyed their time off. We would routinely just deactivate their accounts, because they would come back for the next project. Late 50/60's was the norm.