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He also really shouldn't be doing C89, but he does. I'm afraid he wrote this post because he feels he'll be behind soon.

While he fears Arduino, he does not see the bigger picture. He should be celebrating the demise of C that is coming for his livelihood.




What is replacing C?


C++, Rust, Python. Anything But C!


It's not like you're supposed to do any memory allocation on a 8-bit embedded system. C is really the right choice for AVR microcontroller.


Memory allocation is fine; dynamic memory allocation is where problems occur.


Zig




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