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It's really terrible that for cheap embedded cores things like 8051 are still being used, instead of sane architectures like AVR.
by garaetjjte 2y ago
It's really terrible that for cheap embedded cores things like 8051 are still being used, instead of sane architectures like AVR.
- PaulHoule 2y agoI find it pretty scary that C compilers target the 8051 but I also think C is a terrible waste of the AVR-8 (who needs to move the stack pointer around meaninglessly in a simple program where recursion is a problem and not a solution? Probably the best thing that happened in the 1970s was that Microsoft BASIC beat Lisp and Logo, otherwise a generation of people learning to code would have been victimized even more by bad Fibonacci implementations) which I only indulge in because I can port C code to a bigger microcontroller.
- cmrdporcupine 2y agoHave you ever played with the Parallax Propeller MCUs? (I and II). 32-bit, but very "retro" feel to them. And an odd and interesting multicore architecture. Unfortunately they've had a bad streak in terms of getting a proper GCC or Clang toolchain targeted towards them. The developers of the chip are focused on their own weird structured BASIC-Assembly fusion ("SPIN").