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A big usecase for C is embedded systems projects where wrangling cross-compilers, debug dongles, etc. can become a big headache especially when trying to keep multiple developers' local toolchains in sync or when managing multiple projects with different requirements for the development environment.

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PlatformIO is a dream for this, running build on a project automatically downloads the required toolchains for the target and orchestrates the build process for you.

For me, it's Zephyr

im a bit of a rtos baby but (mostly in ti's really nice rtos), i'd throw my hat in for Zephyr + nordics stuff (i think?) for all the build automagic

but i also think 'plain' ol (now amazon) freertos is pretty cool still

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