By the way: there are many areas in software development which still in their infantry. For example bare metal embedded apps often look like they were written 30-35 years ago.
Usually yes, but recently there started to be visible significant rise of use of C++, especially templates. Testing is still sparse at best, although book Test Driven Development for Embedded C is almost 10 years old. Overall software development is very conservative in some aspects, especially in adoption of new techniques and practices.
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Great article!
By the way: there are many areas in software development which still in their infantry. For example bare metal embedded apps often look like they were written 30-35 years ago.
Great point. I don’t know anything about embedded apps but I’m guessing it’s a lot of C?
Usually yes, but recently there started to be visible significant rise of use of C++, especially templates. Testing is still sparse at best, although book Test Driven Development for Embedded C is almost 10 years old. Overall software development is very conservative in some aspects, especially in adoption of new techniques and practices.