Embedded platform development in (!C)

Question

I'm curious to see how popular the alternatives to C are in the embedded developer world e.g. Ada...

I've only ever used C (with a little bit of assembler), but then my targets have very limited resources. Is there a move else where in this space to something else? What is winning the ware in set top boxes?

If !C what was the underlying reason?

• Compiler support for target
• Trace \ static analysis tools
• other...

Thanks.

Answer 1

Forth is quite popular for embedded development.

Also, while Smalltalk is probably not popular in the embedded community, embedded development is definitely popular in the Smalltalk community.