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0 pointsantonvs8y ago0 comments

What do you mean by embedded systems?

Here's an article from 1998 that gives an example of C++ being used in military avionics systems:

http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO-boeing.html

It's been used in civilian avionics for a long time, too. Not that it's necessarily the best choice in those environments, but "starting to accept" seems like a mischaracterization.

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pjmlp8y ago

I mean the embedded systems where Assembly and C89 still rule, and there is very hard to change, because the problem of adopting anything else is cultural.

Basically, while there are projects being done in C++, and many companies are finally migrating from C to C++, the large majority is sticking with C.

If you prefer to listen to someone actually relevant in the C++ embedded community, here is what Dan Saks has to say about it.

https://youtu.be/D7Sd8A6_fYU

http://cppcast.com/2016/10/dan-saks/

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