New programming language for embedded development ...
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napperley
07/02/2018, 8:13 AMNew programming language for embedded development on uCs (Microcontrollers) called Mita ( overview video - ) : https://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2018/march/mita.php
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gildor
07/02/2018, 9:13 AMOne more programming language that could be implemented just as DSL 🙄
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napperley
07/02/2018, 9:44 AMJust implement Mita as a Kotlin DSL for IoT development, and embedded development is covered 🤖! 😆
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gildor
07/02/2018, 11:17 AMActually I have one more candidate to this infamous category: https://ballerina.io/
gildor
07/02/2018, 11:19 AMThey did really big work, has some nice visualization tools, but I just don't understand why it should be a separate language instead of DSL for existing one
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kartikpatodi
07/02/2018, 3:32 PMI think the main reason is the dsl kas to be copiled and for that we need to fit the vm and iot world lacks it
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gildor
07/02/2018, 4:31 PMI even don't talk about Kotlin, K/N is very young, but idea to create a new language with new syntax just to integrate some dsl for particular use case sounds bizarre for me.
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cedric
07/02/2018, 5:37 PMI’m trying very hard to resist the urge to dismiss any new language as something that could be a DSL of an existing adequate language, but yeah, sometimes it’s an uphill battle.
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thymecypher
07/03/2018, 4:47 AMBecause KN is too new to the game, and every firmware engineer I know refuses to use anything but C (and Unreal is an example of why C DSLs are a nightmare, it nearly destroys the advantages of ReSharper.)
I'd absolutely love to see nRF52 libraries supported with KN - when I tried, cinterop wasn't very reliable but it's still on my bucket list to get working.
thymecypher
07/03/2018, 4:48 AMJust thinking of the Unreal C DSL is giving me the heebies...