So anyway it is not usable for Ucs with a few kilo...
# kotlin-nativem
msink
08/11/2017, 11:40 PMSo anyway it is not usable for Ucs with a few kilobytes of memory. For bigger devices with tens of megabytes and embedded linux - well, why not.
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napperley
08/11/2017, 11:46 PMI don't think there should be any compelling reason why Kotlin can't run on Ucs. After all there was a internal JetBrains project a while back that successfully had a Kotlin program running on a STM32 ARM M3 based Uc in user space. All of the kernel was written in C.
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msink
08/11/2017, 11:48 PMWell, maybe it will someday. But not now.
msink
08/11/2017, 11:51 PMMaybe even it can run some very simple program like LED blinking. But not real life production code.
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napperley
08/11/2017, 11:55 PMActually the internal project is far more advanced than a LED blinking. The Kotlin program drew some text on a LCD screen (PC monitor), which by embedded standards is a bit advanced.
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msink
08/11/2017, 11:58 PMAFAIC 99% was written in C, in Kotlin it was ten lines of code
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napperley
08/12/2017, 12:37 AMDo you have the web address to the GitHub project? Forgot to bookmark the project, would make for a good learning experience. simple smile
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msink
08/12/2017, 4:15 AMn
napperley
08/12/2017, 10:16 AMCan see where the confusion might have come from. Definitely a project that relies on PC hardware, not a Uc. Many PC specific technologies are referred to in the code (eg Grub, VESA, IRQ, x86). Grub doesn't support any Ucs. On ARM based SBCs (Single Board Computers - eg Beaglebone Black, RPi) uBoot is used instead of Grub for boot loading.
napperley
08/12/2017, 10:23 AMWonder if anyone has managed to get Kotlin Native working on OpenWrt (based on Linux and is used for embedded devices - eg routers, switches).
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