Embedded software is a vast market, and it‘s mostly C with a rising share of C++.
Is it really? IoT still isn't taking off much and the more powerful the machines are getting (so every year), the less people are going to use C for that only tiny segment people are still using it for.
Where I've used C on a microcontroller 10 years ago, you would likely use a cheap Android board nowadays.
Look around your home. Right now. How many things have software in them?
How many things don‘t you see in your home? Everything in your home that doesn‘t include software has been manufactured and packaged.
My employer makes components for industrial automation. Have you ever thought about it? Nobody does, unless he has direct contact.
Building automation? Special machinery (huge presses or packaging machines). Whatever.
And re: your Android board: come back when your bricolage conforms to all kinds of requirements. Extended temperature range. Vibration. Electromagnetic compatibility (it‘s easy to accidentally broadcast in the naval emergency band). Etc. etc.
Not much as much as you think, apart from the routers, computers and phone, the only other thing I can think of is the dishwasher because it's half-recent. And I suspect the new ones just include a cheap Android board.
> And re: your Android board: come back when your bricolage conforms to all kinds of requirements. Extended temperature range. Vibration. Electromagnetic compatibility (it‘s easy to accidentally broadcast in the naval emergency band). Etc. etc.
I've worked on a company which manufactured their own card, that is much harder to do by yourself than buying a board which has been produced at millions of units where they solved all those issues directly. You can't compete with that easily. We had at least 5 iterations to solve the magnetic and heat issues, all of that comes for free in a mass-produced board.
I suspect you’re thinking at the wrong level. Your washing machine definitely does have software even if it’s not “recent”. When you press the buttons or turn the dials and it does stuff, even if it doesn’t have pretty graphics on the display, that’s software.
If you have a microwave, that has software, if you have a car that has a ton of software. Your car keys and your credit cards probably have software.
A developer board simply doesn‘t care about most of that, and if it does, to a much lower degree.
But we‘re done here, you‘re clearly not discussing in good faith. Stay in your web bubble if you want to.
Thanks for your well detailed argumentation, that was convincing.
Because your anecdotal evidence is more accurate than what this list (which describes its methodology) is showing you?
C jobs are very rare, and it's certainly not 14% of the programming jobs. Putting Java and C on the exact same level is a good sign something is wrong with what they are doing.
Most software developers don‘t hang out in internet forums, commit to GitHub or write blog posts about JavaScript frameworks. They just do their day job and go home to their family.
Outside of the web, mobile, desktop apps and even gaming (mostly C++) you mean? C is used mainly in low level computing and embed nowadays.
Even as a whole it's slowing down heavily now, even Android is switching to Kotlin. The language is already not that trendy but Oracle's aggressive lawsuits is making it even worse.