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JS certainly isn't ideal for µC, but it can work as shown here. A problem in the embedded world is finding developers as it is, maybe this could help? I believ
by raxxorrax 5y ago
JS certainly isn't ideal for µC, but it can work as shown here. A problem in the embedded world is finding developers as it is, maybe this could help?
I believe Arduino has a C++ transpiler. I would almost prefer Javascript here, although you could just use C as a subset.
- pjmlp 5y agoArduino has a C++ compiler, whatever the scripts are called, they are a plain C++ library. Plenty of modern µC, e.g. ESP32, are more powerful than computers like these ones, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC1512 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC1512 As exercise for the reader check the programming languages available up to MS-DOS 6.22. It is about time to move on from the mindset that µC are only PICs with 4 KB.
- raxxorrax 5y agoIt has never been a question of computing power or memory, that was already solved decades ago. It is a question of fitting the µC to the application. Price and power consumption are usually the qestions to be answered. 0,50$ or 2$ chip still makes a difference. I think ESPXXXs usually have < 500kb ram. Still quite tight.
- pjmlp 5y agoThe ESP32 has more memory than the PC linked above. COM executables were 64KB, and EXE could use as much as they wanted from 512 - 640 KB in multiples of 64 KB, minus the MS-DOS resident size. Naturally stuff like HMA came later into play with MS-DOS 5, which wasn't something that MS-DOS 3.3, again from the PC above, was capable of. Or if you prefer, I refer to what was possible with 64 - 128 KB on Timex 2068, Spectrum 128 +3A (with CP/M), Commodore 64 with GeOS,... Which, yes games would be coded in Assembly, there was business stuff being sold and coded in BASIC, Pascal, Forth,...