Most embedded development is done in C variants with a ton of ASM optimizations. A lot is done in ASM, too.

The problem with high-level languages is that the first assumption is that resources are plentiful. Embedded devices do not have plentiful resources. In fact, they are the last bastion of the C-64 type of development, where your "data" might also have "instructions", just to squeeze a few more bytes or milliseconds.

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