Mongoose OS – An Open Source Operating System for the Internet of Things

Re:Mongoose OS – An Open Source Operating System for the Int... by anujdeshpande on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @10:21PM (#14964996)

A recent tweet that I found funny - "Every time a conf organizer accepts a talk about #IoT using JavaScript ... somewhere in the world an IoT/embedded developer ... dies !"[1].

On a serious note though - Does anyone know a mass manufactured product (based on a uController) that actually uses anything other than C/C++?

Rust is a strong contender too, surprised to not see it mentioned here. See an older discussion about Rust on ARM Cortex M[2]

1. https://twitter.com/ppatierno/status/894575063562936321 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14071282

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Re:Mongoose OS – An Open Source Operating System for the Int... by squarefoot on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @09:51AM (#14968741)

"On a serious note though - Does anyone know a mass manufactured product (based on a uController) that actually uses anything other than C/C++?"

None that I know of, but ESP8266 and similar MCUs are so widespread that probably there are lots of products using say nodemcu (ESP+Lua scripting) under the hood. http://nodemcu.com/index_en.html

Wifimcu is a similar product but uses a STM32F4 MCU. http://www.wifimcu.com/

I would personally love to see more use of Nim in this field; it just seem the right tool for the job for being easy to learn, small, fast and powerful.

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