>>51093612>Small companies and startups don't just magically go out and make their own architectures for the sake of being special you fucking retard.>it is impossible that some have a brilliant idea and wants to implement a prototypeYou do know that ARM recently acquired not one but two companies that have done exactly that?
>You clearly have no clue about the systems in the embedded fields and probably don't even know what you're even talking about when you say architecture.Well, the guys I work for clearly do since I'm hired to write firmware for their PCIe NTB switches.
>You are truly the biggest fucking idiot if you think that is a highlight of C in 2015.Nice strawman. I simply refuted your retarded claim that there were no reason to use C over C++ today.
Also, the Linux kernel.
>>51093623>An old hunk of shit that has been bandaid ed for years and even rewrote the wheel on features c++ has just to be able to use them in C? Nice.It's still the most popular kernel in the world per 2015.