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by andyfilms15 hours ago |
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upvoteby RetroTechie3 hours ago|
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Out of curiosity:

In your opinion, could a minimal system to develop in Odin be squeezed into a device like the one(s) you targeted?

That's assuming maybe some tweaks to the toolset, doing without some niceties, but not cutting core features out of the language.

Asking 'cause I have a passing interest in programming languages that allow for native development on really small implementations (think sub-1MB on bare metal). The list of candidates doesn't seem long.

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upvoteby andyfilms12 hours ago|
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Odin is not like JS or something where you'd need a VM or transpilation process to target an embedded system. It's just C with nicer syntax and modern data structures, there's no "squeezing" required. You just compile for the target you want to run on.

Here's a UI framework, if you scroll down you'll see it on a Raspi Pico: https://github.com/MadlyFX/Ansuz

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upvoteby RetroTechie1 hours ago|
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I think you missed "native development". I'll rephrase:

Could a toolset to develop in Odin be made to run on (not just target) an STM32 microcontroller like you used?

> It's just C with nicer syntax and modern data structures

That suggests the above would (in theory) be possible for any device that's roughly in the same class as "can run a C compiler". Correct?

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upvoteby fatty_patty8953 minutes ago|
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> It's just C with nicer syntax and modern data structures

it's not, it's llvm

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upvoteby andyfilms16 minutes ago|
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Okay, I mean obviously :D I was more trying to convey the feeling of it.
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upvoteby christophilus2 hours ago|
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I’d be interested in reading about your experience building web applications with it. Last I looked, its stdlib didn’t have great support for that.
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upvoteby sarchertech2 hours ago|
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There’s an official http package coming out and native tls support as well.
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upvoteby christophilus47 minutes ago|
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Yeah, but OP has built web applications without those. So, I wonder how they went about it.
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upvoteby andyfilms14 minutes ago|
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I used WASM
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upvoteby clumsysmurf3 hours ago|
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I'd like to hear more about Odin + STM32 MCU firmware, do you have any good resources? I'm also curious how difficult it may be to using it with ESP32 (ESP-IDF) / RP2350.
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upvoteby andyfilms12 hours ago|
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You can look at my repo here: https://github.com/MadlyFX/odin-embedded-boilerplate

I don't believe Xtensa (ESP32) is supported yet, but people have been asking for it, so it may happen at some point. ARM is well supported now though, obviously.

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