Nim 1.6 - Hackdot

Re:Nim 1.6 by PMunch on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @09:44AM (#28918007)

Oh it definitely can run on those devices! I wrote my own keyboard firmware from scratch in Nim, and the firmware sizes are vanishingly small compared to even simple "hello world" level stuff in Arduino. I did a talk on it for NimConf2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcHEhO4J29U

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Re:Nim 1.6 by wiremine on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @11:10AM (#28918932)

This is great!

I've wondered if Nim could be the foundation for a sort of "next-generation" Arduino. It's easy to learn, compiles to small binaries, and can wrap a ton of existing C code.

My experiments taught me wrapping Arduino from scratch, while possible, might not be ideal. There's some cruft in that code base, and the abstractions could use some updating.

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Re:Nim 1.6 by elcritch on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @01:46PM (#28921101)

Yes, yes Nim could be. Actually I’ve been working on that idea for a while now. I’ve been working on getting an Embedded Nim project going on GitHub. Come stop by! Also some discussions on Nim forum: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/7731#49050

PS I’m wrapping Zephyr as a basis, but working on better Nim abstractions on top.

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Re:Nim 1.6 by dom96 on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @11:21AM (#28919074)

There is definitely room for this, it just needs somebody passionate enough to write a nice Arduino/embedded framework and document/promote it well.

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