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Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R... by falcrist on Monday July 10, 2023 @08:56AM (#36665676)
Arduino is a platform, not a microcontroller. ESP32 is technically a microcontroller, but it's an SOC... which is not the kind that generally gets used for industrial applications in the field I'm in.

You shouldn't assume I get to choose the platform I'm working on. That's not how it works where I'm at, and if (when) I do get to choose, programming language is unlikely to be near the top of the list of criteria.

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Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R... by pjmlp on Monday July 10, 2023 @09:53AM (#36666469)
Whatever you are forced to chose doesn't make the other options disappear from the market.
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Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R... by falcrist on Monday July 10, 2023 @11:22AM (#36667744)
The other options aren't relevant to my comment.

If you're going to be pedantic, you need to be both relevant and correct. You are neither.

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