Here’s a history quiz: What architecture did the first C++ compiler target? Of course, it is a trick question. The original C++ — known then as C with classes — compiler wrote out standard C code that ...

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Overview: C and C++ remain the most important languages for fast, low-memory embedded devices. Newer languages like Rust and ...