[teunispeters]

I like C. You can take away all memory management (yes, including some of the unsafe glibc calls that have hidden memory management) and everything can be so smooth and clean. Since rules like MISRA require up-front allocation - if any is in use - this can be tightly controlled.

Very useful if you don't want (or need) surprises anywhere. Or if you want all the surprises (exceptions, errors, etc) all better tied to the hardware that provides such.

It's also fairly easy to write unit tests for everything.