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6.8 | 0.0 | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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How difficult is it to make a game for a gameboy advance
• libtonc - a low-level C library providing direct access to the hardware • Butano - a high-level modern C++ engine • gbaplusplus - a low-level modern C++ library • gba-modern - a batteries-included modern C++ project template • BPCore - an engine that uses Lua scripting, similar to PICO-8 • gbsenpai - can be used to port GB Studio (v2.0 only) games to GBA • agb * - a crate for Rust users • libseven * - a new replacement for libtonc • ugba * - a C library that can also target PC • Natu * - a toolkit using the Nim language
- How to get clean simple C output?
nim-on-samd21
- How to get clean simple C output?
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New embedded programming language with C as a host language
C++ has decent industry acceptance in embedded nowadays, or at least that has been my impression.
After C++, rust is likely the most popular, quite a lot of effort has been put into running rust on embedded, see eg https://github.com/rust-embedded. However, once again to my understanding, industry acceptance is still highly marginal.
After that, there's a bunch of toy-ish efforts to run other languages. Zig, nim, python and javascript variants, etc. Usually anything that has C ABI compatibility should be possible to get up and running (without writing a compiler backend from scratch). I've had fun with some toy projects using nim for ARM cortex-M targets (https://github.com/EmbeddedNim/svd2nim, https://github.com/auxym/nim-on-samd21, https://github.com/EmbeddedNim/picostdlib).
Using Nim (and eg svd2nim to generate the equivalent of CMSIS headers for register access in pure nim), it would be entirely possible to write even the low level stuff (SPI drivers and whatnot) in 100% nim, with the same performance as C and better safety (better static type system and compile-time checks, etc). Runtime (eg overflow) checks and garbage collection are available (at the cost of some performance) but optional. See eg. a pretty basic higher-level API for GPIO access, that provides native performance, since the abstraction is implemented as macros (compile-time abstraction): https://github.com/auxym/nim-on-samd21/blob/master/src/port....
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Emulator of Original Dell Charger Using ATTINY85
To be clear: Ratel isn't my project, just something I'm following due to interest.
In the interest of shameless self promotion :), my own experimentations are :
https://github.com/EmbeddedNim/svd2nim
https://github.com/auxym/nim-on-samd21
And I've used and contributed to picostdlib (https://github.com/beef331/picostdlib), the rp2040 support library.
All just as a hobby, but it's interesting to learn that some companies are actually looking into Nim for firmware! Embedded seems like such a slow moving industry. I believe the author of Nesper and Nephyr also developed them for professional work.
- Ask HN: What's Your Side Project?
What are some alternatives?
butano - Modern C++ high level GBA engine
kcgi - minimal CGI and FastCGI library for C/C++
gba-modern - An attempt to create a Game Boy Advance game using Modern C++
picostdlib - Nim wrapper for the raspberry pi stdlib
gbsenpai - GB Studio Extended Nominal Player Adaptation/Interface
nimOnAVR - Nim language test program for Arduino UNO/Nano or its compatibles
svd2nim - Convert CMSIS ARM SVD files to nim register memory mappings
dell-charger-emulator - Emulator of original Dell charger using ATTINY85
micronucleus - ATTiny usb bootloader with a strong emphasis on bootloader compactness.