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A comment on A Programming Language for the Internet of Things [pdf].

Re:A Programming Language for the Internet of Things [pdf] by xchaotic on Saturday September 16, 2017 @03:06PM (#15266131)
an "IoT device" is still a computer, why does it need a new language? So I did RTFM and got to this part: "There is always a possibility that something were to go wrong with the program as it is sent to the device. For example, it is not impossible that bits get flipped or that some packets with the data are lost. The compiler would have to support a wide range of different architectures. That said, this argument may be mute as an interpreter must be able to run on different architectures."

Verifying a compiled executable with a checksum must outweight the bloat of shipping an interpreter with every (low power) device. SO I stopped reading at that point.

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Re:A Programming Language for the Internet of Things [pdf] by twic on Saturday September 16, 2017 @04:35PM (#15266599)
From the abstract:

> However, many of those tools require the user to know programming languages such as C, Python and JavaScript. Users who do not know much programming and who would like to tinker with IoT may find it challenging to work with those tools. > > In this thesis we’ll look at how to design a programming language targeted specifically at IoT. The language is targeted at amateur programmers with the goal to make it easy to program any IoT device.

I think the motivation for this language can be summarised in two key points:

1. It might be easier for novices to get started with IoT using a language designed specifically for it

2. The author needed to do something for master's thesis

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