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