Is there any reason to use C instead of C++ for embedded development?

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I have two compilers on my hardware C++ and C89

I\'m thinking about using C++ with classes but without polymorphism (to avoid vtables). The main r

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There are a number of different controller manufacturers around the globe and when you take a look into their designs and the instruction sets that need to be used to configure you may end up in a lot of troubles. The main disadvantage of assembly language is that machine/architecture dependent. It’s really huge ask for a developer to by heart all the instructions set out there to accomplish coding for different controllers. That is why C became more popular in embedded development because C is high-level enough to abstract the algorithms and data structures from hardware-dependent details, making the source code portable across a wide variety of target hardware, architecture independent language and very easy to convert and maintain the code. But we do see some high-level languages (object-oriented) like C, C++, Python, Java etc. are evolving enough to make them under the radar of embedded system development.