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Last year I discovered TinyGo (tinygo.org). Looking at the list of supported hardware I see quite a few ARM SoCs there. I also believe Google supports the TinyG

by perbu 6y ago

Last year I discovered TinyGo (tinygo.org). Looking at the list of supported hardware I see quite a few ARM SoCs there. I also believe Google supports the TinyGo project in some shape or form. So why does TamaGo exists? (No snark, just curious)

ejolto 6y ago
I quickly looked up TinyGo and it seems to have a larger scope than TamaGo. For example it supports several Atmel microcontrollers that are not ARM based. TamaGos scope is smaller as they only support ARM. I'm sure there are more differences. Edit: They answer the question in their faq https://github.com/f-secure-foundry/tamago/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions-(FAQ)#how-does-tamago-differ-from-tinygo https://github.com/f-secure-foundry/tamago/wiki/Frequently-A...
- perbu 6y ago
  Thanks. So, for other who are curious. TamaGo is focused on certain ARM SoCs. So CPUs rather than microcontrollers. TamaGo is more or less a fully fledged go running on bare metal. Pretty cool, actually.
  - wumms 6y ago
    Also there's gokrazy[0]: "a pure-Go userland for your Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 appliances" [0] https://github.com/gokrazy/gokrazy https://github.com/gokrazy/gokrazy
    - lcarsip 6y ago
      gokrazy is not bare metal as it bundles a Linux kernel, so it's basically a mini-Linux distro and therefore quite different.
    - rdbell 6y ago
      This looks great! Thanks for sharing.
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justinclift 6y ago
TinyGo is a re-implementation (in progress) of Go (mostly from the ground up), and using LLVM as the backend for code generation. TamaGo appears to be standard Go, forked to add support for specific boards.