You can get a full linux OS to run on ARM System-on-chip boards,
including Pike. The catch is that they're not really embedded systems as
much as single board computers.
I've considered what would be required to strip away the OS, and the
answer is that you lose a lot of what you'd want to use Pike for anyhow:
no filesystem, no threads, no built-in networking. Basically, C but
without memory management and with better types. But really, most true
MCUs are so space constrained that I'm not sure it's worth the effort
(which I suppose perhaps depends on the goal).
I'd be interested to hear opinions on this from others, though.
Bill
On Mon, 5 May 2014, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
I've been doing some PCB work lately, exploring various
MCUs, discovered that ARM MCUs are quite affordable these days.
How feasible would a embedded-Pike be, kind of in the same spirit
as this MicroPython:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/214379695/micro-python-python-for-microcontrollers
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Stephen.
