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Shouldn't Forth be in hype again due IoT?
by jjgomo33 10y ago
Shouldn't Forth be in hype again due IoT?
- chubot 10y agoIt appears that the current gen of "IoT" is built on cheap SoCs which run Linux. Linux is millions of lines of C code already, so using Forth in that context feels a bit ridiculous.
- pjmlp 10y agoCheaper SoCs like Arduino and Cortex-M3 run bare metal runtimes, just like on the old days. But yeah, I guess for single units people will just shell out 10 euro more and use a Linux capable unit. However there are options to use better languages than C or C++ for bare metal embedded development, but none of them tends to be Forth, rather Basic, Pascal, Ada, Java, .NET, Oberon variants.