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Re:A Zig Diary by audunw on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @09:02AM (#34338541)
> all anyone seems to target with new languages for embedded these days is ARM

.. and RISC-V. Zig does work with RISC-V, to some degree at least.

I hope Zig support for AVR improves. For legacy reasons. But I don't think we need more AVR going forward. It's rather proprietary, no?

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Re:A Zig Diary by ikskuh on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @03:41PM (#34344394)
If everything goes according to plan, Zig will be the only language that is capable of actually utilizing the AVR 24 bit address space properly, while also allowing you to make nice optimizations with the smaller 16 bit address spaces (Zig has first class address spaces on memory)

Also, RISC-V support is working quite fine, and i don't see much problems with that.

> But I don't think we need more AVR going forward. It's rather proprietary, no?

AVR is Arduino. It would be a bad action to basically say: "well, zig is not going to support the most widespread maker hardware on the market"

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