Considered the effort required to add Lua support to the platform? At least eLua would fit and probably provide a great environment for onboard development (i.e. non-crosscompiling...)
Lua is planned! It's an interpreted language with a lightweight compiler which is one of the next things on the "large scale" todo list!
I know, i know! This is what makes me a bit sad. I dont know of any modern compiler i can use on the platform, as most hobby compilers target aarch64 or 32/64 bit x86.
What i need tho is a compiler that targets Arm/Thumb-2.
My research tells me that this confines me to: - A non-complete patch series for TCC (maybe) - LLVM - GCC
As twonof them obviously won't run on 8 MB, my options are stripped down to:
- Evaluate CBE and write my own backend and add 32 bit support - Write my own compiler + backend
Both options don't sound viable before the release as they would increase the scope greatly.