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0 pointsinfamouscow2y ago0 comments

It's a show stopper when size matters and you can't fit the binaries into flash.

I'm sure "sorry for getting everyone to switch to this unestablished language" will go over very well with your boss and upper management. At least in C and C++ you can blame your tools.

If you've stupidly convinced management the existing tooling is shit, then you've got a problem. And I don't mean a technical one, I mean a problem with paying rent, because you're not going to be employed much longer.

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steveklabnik2y ago· 2 in thread

My point is that you can always fit the binaries into flash. There’s no inherent overhead.

infamouscowOP2y ago

That's great it works well for AMD64 Linux ELF files. I would be surprised if it didn't given the toolchain seems to have been designed around that triple specifically.

But the majority of embedded platforms are not booting or running AMD64 Linux, they're running ARMv{6,7,8}, MIPS, or 32-bit RISC-V chips.

steveklabnik2y ago

This is not for Linux, these are for the RTOS that we have authored. Bare metal 32 bit ARM.

Basically, you've confused the two examples: the first one is about x86_64 Linux, yes, but the rest are all thumbv6m-none-eabi, thumbv7em-none-eabihf, thumbv8m.main-none-eabihf, stuff like that.

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