Someone should get one of these and dd copy all 0xdeadbeefs to the disk

Then dd it all off and confirm no corruption and it truly is the size it says.

Seen firmwares of shitty sd cards and drives lie about their storage capacity

Rust won’t replace c.

The programs are too bloated for many embedded systems where every byte counts because it’s in ROM or loaded jnto IRAM

All that memory safety and garbage collection, for example, comes at a big cost

C is the sniper you don’t see