kasperl
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Comment · 1 day ago
:)
Comment · 1 day ago
I just started working on a compile-to-native approach you might appreciate :)
Comment · 1 day ago
Arguments like --greeting are the named arguments:
https://docs.toit.io/language/beginner/lists-and-functions/#...
The name argument is positional here.
Comment · 3 years ago
There are ways and we've seen successful integration of C++ libraries and functionality - but it is not what I would call easy yet.
Toit is evolving rapidly and we find that being fully open source helps our users tweak things where necessary. It's been a fun ride so far and we've got some pretty awesome and sophisticated use cases that involve custom C++ code.
Comment · 3 years ago
That's a fair and valid point. I firmly believe that live reloading of individual apps on your ESP32 during development is a big win for productivity, but clearly so is an established and mature ecosystem.
Comment · 3 years ago
I also really like MicroPython! Having said that, I have been working on an alternative to it for a number of years now -- primarily to provide a more robust and performant high-level alternative to C and Rust on the ESP32-family of chips:
https://github.com/toitlang/toit
I'd love to pick your brain and fully understand your experience with MicroPython. I've been doing programming languages for a number of years now, and I find that it is incredibly useful to understand what developers appreciate (and dislike) about the available stacks.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thank you! I'll try to get that updated.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thank you for the mention!
I have been working on the Toit language for the ESP32 for a number of years now -- and it has been an enjoyable challenge to build an open source stack capable of supporting live reloading on a micro-controller that can run for years on batteries.
Comment · 3 years ago
I find it strangely mesmerizing to watch sorting algorithms do their thing. Thanks for having fun!
Comment · 3 years ago
Fix for the UTF-8 issue on Windows is in the works: https://github.com/toitlang/toit/pull/1318.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention :)
Comment · 4 years ago
When we wrote the initial version of V8, it was reasonably small :)
Comment · 4 years ago
No V8? The website explicitly says that Blueboat combines Google's state-of-the-art V8 JavaScript engine, process-level snapshots, and Rust to speed up everything from cold start to runtime performance.
Comment · 4 years ago
Author here. We have been working on enabling modern, high-level software architectures on micro-controllers for some time now and we're at a point where we feel like the bits we've built could use some scrutiny and feedback from the wider community. It is all open-source and it is ready for you to try out.
If you're interested in building software for embedded devices, but turned off by having to do everything in low-level C code running in a kernel context, we're definitely interested in working with you to build an alternative. A high-level, robust alternative that makes it easier to build quality services for the internet of things powered by micro-controllers like the ESP32.