> In their defense, gdb is a pain in the ass to use if your editor doesn't come with integrated support. The debugger that comes with CLion/Visual Studio is perfectly adequate.
I meant, they do not know what a debugger is. As stated, they use "cout > Ada is useful for automotive. Lisp and Forth, not so much (especially since Lisp isn't usually used in hard real-time applications). This isn't the 1980s, MCUs aren't that memory constrained.
Well, first, they do not have the foggiest idea what Ada is. That is my problem. Once somebody suggested we should look into it, for L4 autonomous driving. He was laugh at, and it was said "it is a dead language from the 60, like Cobol or Fortran, nobody has used it in 50 years, there are no compilers for it!!!". I've seen forth being used in some 8-bit uC in the automotive industry still. Now is 99% gone, but was very much used. Lisp, can be used in hard real-time. BTW another thing always hanging around is the "hard real-time" for automotive. It is interesting, because other than for airbags, ignition and injection, you are talking about 100ms response times, which can be achieved very easily.
> Knowledge of obscure programming languages doesn't necessarily make you a better software engineer.
I'm not taking proficiency in the languages, I'm talking knowing it exist, having an idea of what is possible. I mean, I know no good C programmer that is not at least aware or the existence or Rust. And no, 90% of the programmers writing safety critical SW have no idea that a language called rust is available.
> I want my automotive embedded engineer to have a solid grasp of computer architecture, real-time safety protocols, and defensive programming.
Well, again, another example, with a chief software architect, in an ECU, so embedded: I ask "do we have some kind of stack monitoring?" Reply: "What?! we have no stack, stack is a data structure, ..." goes on with a long explanation of what stack, queue and tree are, and when are used... My personal opinion is, if you search for people that "know" only C++, and have no idea of asm, that is what you get. That is my experience at least.
> I don't see a problem with a Korean/Japanese car manufacturer having their documentation in a non-English language. As long as they do everything in-house and don't outsource to India like Boeing I have no problem with it.
I'm talking in-code comments, not documentation. But anyway, honesty, thinking you can do everything in-house today, and you will be able to maintain that in that way for the next 10 or 20 years when you have to maintain the code, sounds optimistic to me, at least.
But again, I'm talking code I had to read, and maintain... so... yes... I'm talking a case, where it was BAD to have not english comments.