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No (and that isn't what he said), but surely they should get a say, right?
by azdle 11y ago
No (and that isn't what he said), but surely they should get a say, right?
- vonmoltke 11y agopslam basically did in his next paragraph: > If this project really did require re-inventing C++ in C, it must be justified by being fairly large. In which case, a low-end ARM (Cortex M based) microcontroller would have been entirely suitable. All ARMs have multiple C++ toolchains which support them. ARM is not entirely suitable for any application just because you have complex (for some definition of complex) software.
- pslam 11y agoNo, but the software impact of choosing a particular piece of hardware should absolutely be part of the system design process. If it is not, then you are part of a project with bad leadership, or very, very old-fashioned architects. It's not just ARM - there's plenty of other CPU architectures with modern Clang, GCC, or other toolchains with C++ support. Given that this is a large code base (justifying this amount of work), this cannot be a "tiny" microcontroller, as in 8 bit, and needing to run on microamps. I cannot believe that there were not C++-capable microcontrollers available which would have done the job, without breaking the bank.
- z92 11y agoDoing it at lowest cost is the point. Because even if you don't lower your cost, your competitors will.