Judging from my knowledge of the history of firmware engineering tools, practices etc. It has consistently lagged behind the software engineering field by several years. For example, as far as I can tell there is still a fair amount of debate in the firmware world as to whether C++ is actually worth using for our applications, and some C++ compilers are noticeably absent (microchip?!?). I imagine that in large part this is due to the differences in requirements between firmware and software. Again, judging from history, it seems its only a matter of time before the properly vetted tools and techniques make it into the firmware world.Judging from my knowledge of the history of fir