@fribbledom Which is pretty much just C.
You should see the development times with C projects vs C++ projects. C programming takes less time to get things done than C++ programming does on average.
It is not intuitive, but engineers only need 1 or 2 simple ways to make a piece of hardware do things in the first place.
In embedded systems, about 70% of the programming share is still C as of 2018.
But that said, I like language design. C++ is kind of cool, if you can get devs to behave and only use 1 portion of it at time.
And hardware diverse systems tend to have nearly C compliant compilers instead of standard ones. C++ is something you would find on a fancier system.
So the statistics are not really true. We use C-ish language to avoid straight binary or assembler language. And this is due to C compilers being easy to write. But LLVM and the like may change this.