After playing a little bit with QBasic when I was a kid, I was given a K&R C book. My takeaway: programming is not for me. I didn't look at programming seriously again until I was 23. This article is terrible advice. https://www.zeroequalsfalse.press/2017/11/29/c/
"when it comes to, say, a chip in a refrigerator, you simply cannot use modern languages like Java or Python." Isn't Java one of the most popular languages for embedded programming? What is this person smoking
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Heck, MRuby is running embedded now in satellites among other things.
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Really? I would actually be very interested to hear more about MRuby being in satellites. Are there details of that anywhere?
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I think their understanding of "a chip in a refrigerator" is at least 30 years old.
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Even Python can run on "chips" nowadays: https://micropython.org/
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