Microcontrollers are known as the graveyard of hig...
# embedded-kotlinn
napperley
03/21/2025, 11:43 PMMicrocontrollers are known as the graveyard of high level languages 🪦 . Some languages have tried to target microcontrollers, but have eventually died/faded away. Some of the reasons high level languages have failed include the following:
• Using a GC that isn't suitable for uCs (Microcontrollers)
• Relying too heavily on the Heap for storing data
• Bad quality toolchain (toolchain size is too large to download, can't statically link everything into a single binary etc)
• Using a standard library that is too heavy weight (e.g. code size is too large)
• Generation of binaries that are too large in size
• Reliance on a VM (large code size, high RAM usage etc)
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andylamax
04/08/2025, 7:54 AMThis being said, should I still hold my breath that one day kotlin could be used to target a uC?
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louiscad
05/05/2025, 6:37 PMApple is working on embedded Swift, that might already work better, hopefully with many similar concepts like structured concurrency
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gildor
05/06/2025, 1:10 PMI mean, so far swift adoption was really not impressive outside of iOS
I suspect that embedded Swift will be probably really far from real swift too