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Re:The State of Go by pjmlp on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @03:35AM (#9609895)
If you can do it with .NET Micro Framework, Java (Atego, MicroEJ, J9, ...) and Oberon (Astrobe), surely Go is also welcomed.
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Re:The State of Go by learc83 on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @01:15PM (#9612839)
It's not that you can't use Go. It's that Go's probably not the best tool for the job.

Sure you can do embedded development with the .NET micro framework because there are embedded systems that don't have hard real time requirements.

If you're building a hobby robot with netduino, you might not care if you have guarantees about input response time--as long as the delays are usually small enough. But if you move beyond that, you're most likely going to need a real time system.

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Re:The State of Go by pjmlp on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @03:03PM (#9613586)
Do you consider missile guidance systems hard real time requirements?

http://www.atego.com/products/atego-perc-pico/

As a language I am not a fan of Go, but on the context of using strong type languages in embedded scenarios. I think the less C the better.

Just like JavaScript JITs, it is always a matter how much companies are willing to invest to improve the quality of the existing eco-systems.

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Re:The State of Go by learc83 on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @03:58PM (#9613917)
That's a virtual machine specifically designed for this kind of thing.

So sure, if you want to use go syntax and build a completely new runtime designed for use in real time systems then go ahead.

As for strong typing in embedded scenarios Ada's been doing that for decades.

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