[sdiy] Programming Language Recommendation

[Jay Schwichtenberg]

I was an embedded/bare metal HW/SW engineer and will say working with 
embedded ARM uCs C.

C++ usually complicates things and is overkill for run of the mill 
embedded stuff. Don't know if it is still true but at one time the C++ 
libraries had a lot of bloat and took up a lot of storage. I've also 
found C++ harder to debug when people start overloading and abstracting 
things.

If you do need to run object based code you can in C. Take all the data 
for an object and put it into a structure and then pass a pointer to the 
structure around through the code. This is more or less the equivalent 
of a 'this structure' that objects have in C++. The data is isolated to 
a single object and just use a new structure with different data for 
another object. Also follow C++ and make you own constructors and 
destructors to setup and shutdown things.

Jay S.

On 12/2/2020 6:45 PM, Shawn Rakestraw wrote:
> Please don't go into extreme detail (unless you really want to). I ask 
> too many simple questions and I feel bad that everyone spends great 
> amounts of time with it.
>
> I am thinking about programming ARM chips like the STM32 for something 
> like Braids. I know that I will not be making my own Braids module 
> anytime soon, but I would like to start thinking about the language I 
> need to learn. I know the most about C++. I also realize that my 
> question may be better asked as what libraries should I load / study 
> up on.
>
> Thanks guys/gals
>
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