> In short, the bar is set rather high and C is already awesome.<p>Haha. no, just no.<p>I can't speak for other embedded developers, but I <i>hate</i> C, it's just usually the only option for small devices.<p>The 'maker' movement and it's relentless movement towards bigger and bigger ARM based systems has opened that up a little, thankfully; you can now find plenty of SBCs that offer 1GB+, and that means <i>any</i> language is an option (at least if it has a pausable gc).