Bill Welliver wrote: >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.
Those are still too large/expensive (for the applications I have in mind). >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). Well, the hardware the micropython targets should be able to support an embedded Pike too. The benefits (obviously) are somewhat faster development, which is a plus in an embedded system, because debugging is more complicated on such a system. -- Stephen.
