Greetings. I am a Kotlin <https://kotlinlang.org/> community member that is working on adding BBB support for Kotlin Native <https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native> and need some help with the following:
- Selecting a suitable toolchain that will work on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and possibly Debian (hosts) for cross compilation to the BBB - Setting up a sysroot (libraries, config files to include etc) - What C libraries to use with the toolchain (if applicable) - Standard C library to use for the embedded side (for use in a *"Blinky"* Kotlin Native sample program on the BBB side) - Hosting for the Kotlin Native BBB toolchain and sysroot (stored as *tar.gz* files) Now for a bit of background Kotlin Native uses the Kotlin programming language, and LLVM <http://llvm.org/> for developing native programs (executables) that work on multiple platforms (Linux x86-64, Mac OSX, ARM Cortex A SBC's etc) without a virtual machine. Currently there is automatic reference counting for automatic memory management (no GC implemented), and manual memory management can also be used. Interoperability <https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/blob/master/INTEROP.md> is available for C (not C++) libraries, which has a partial reliance on libffi <https://sourceware.org/libffi/>. There are some Kotlin Native samples <https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/tree/master/samples> available with the most sophisticated one being a Tetris <https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/tree/master/samples/tetris> game which uses the SDL <https://www.libsdl.org/> library. The Kotlin programming language was created by JetBrains <https://www.jetbrains.com/> (the company that sells tools like PyCharm <https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm> and IntelliJ <https://www.jetbrains.com/idea>). Andrey Breslav is the language founder who named Kotlin after Kotlin Island <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_Island> near Saint Petersburg, Russia. Kotlin is designed to be a programmatic (industrial), Object Orientated (is multi paradigm) programming language, which is fully inter-operable with Java (Kotlin JVM only), and is open source <https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin> (Apache 2). Average time for learning Kotlin <http://kotlinlang.org/docs/kotlin-docs.pdf> is around 3 days, although some people can pickup Kotlin in a few hours. Main areas where Kotlin is used are Android, and server side (especially micro web services) development. You might be interested in listening to some Talking Kotlin <http://talkingkotlin.com/> podcasts which cover other areas where Kotlin has been used. Would be highly appreciated (also grateful) by the Kotlin Native team if the Beaglebone Foundation could send a BBB to JetBrains in order to ensure that Kotlin Native properly supports the BBB. Important to note that Kotlin is split into three platforms: - Kotlin JVM (Kotlin on the Java platform) - Kotlin JS (Kotlin on the web) - Kotlin Native (Kotlin on native platforms without a virtual machine) -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/da40a82e-ee44-4985-b154-31cb9cab95e2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
