rp2040_hal VS nephyr

You can go bare metal for the raspberry pico. Maybe it's also interesting to you: https://pico-doc.synack.me/

In this release we improved Alire integration. Now you don't need the compiler to be in the PATH (only alr) when you are working with a crate, because Alire will configure it for you. Suppose you setup a crate for Rasperry Pico, if you open it in VS Code, then navigation should work out of the box. Also any Alire configuration is skipped altogether if the VSCode was launched with alr edit or alr exec.

If you want a more modern processor, pick the RPI Nano. You find extensive doc here: https://pico-doc.synack.me/

Ada on Raspberry Pi Pico website ( https://pico-doc.synack.me/)

AdaCore's docs are fantastic for understanding why things are done the way they are. However, when I'm learning a new platform or language I prefer to see a lot of practical examples first. That's what I tried to do with my "Ada on the Raspberry Pi Pico" project:

https://pico-doc.synack.me/

I use Nim on embedded precisely for that reason: https://github.com/elcritch/nesper

I wtapped much of zephyr as well but that ones less used: https://github.com/embeddednim/nephyr

It's funny how something like Zig's comptime of C++'s constexpr get 90% of the way to solving most compile time issues, but can't knock out that last 10%. Compile time database types sound like one of those cases. F# had a feature for compile time types via "type providers". It seemed _really_ cool at first, but in practice is was a bit fragile.

Though on the other hand I'm using compile Nim code to parse CMake files and provide static types for configuration values. It's super easy in Nim between macros and const's. Here's a ~170 lines of code where I'm compile time checking that my Nim code can compile time check against the current build configuration of Zephyr RTOS https://github.com/EmbeddedNim/nephyr/blob/main/src/zephyr_c...

Nesper author here, unfortunately I haven’t had time to fix the compile issues on all the esp-idf branches. Please feel free to file an issue as I don’t use es-idf/Nesper often now but I’ll respond to issues. The main branch should be more stable too.

I’ve been moving development to Zephyr RTOS since it supports many more boards and is more stable. I’d recommend trying it out but note it’s a WIP. I haven’t figured out templated examples yet. I’ve covered lots of api areas but not all. My goal is to make it into a broad MCU platform for Nim — Nephyr: https://github.com/EmbeddedNim/nephyr

But yah Nim can run on most anywhere you can compile C to. Some people just got Nim CMSIS working. I’m hoping to get more people involved at github.com/EmbeddedNim project to support more mcu’s. Testers are welcome!