nim-on-samd21

Template for programming Microchip SAM D21 MCUs with Nim (by auxym)

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  • How to get clean simple C output?
    5 projects | /r/nim | 8 Sep 2022
  • New embedded programming language with C as a host language
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jul 2022
    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....

  • Emulator of Original Dell Charger Using ATTINY85
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Feb 2022
    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.

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    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2021
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auxym/nim-on-samd21 is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of nim-on-samd21 is C.


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