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Modern C++ is just fine. It is a more flexible language than Java and the rising demand of embedded software for advanced microcontrollers allows complex C++ instead of no-malloc-for-safety-reasons - style C. So I find the current trend not too surprising. Also I dont know many languages that offer that much versatility. Only Rust maybe…when the ecosystem matures…

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The only issue as far as I can tell is that many platforms are not supported by LLVM, but given that GCC now has a rust frontend (without the borrow checker), I don't see why plain old rustc can't be used to verify semantics and the gcc front-end to compile for other platforms.

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