[sdiy] Programming Language Recommendation

[Shawn Rakestraw]

Thanks Jay, I actually installed a VirtualBox with Ubuntu tonight and
started learning C. It is a lot like C++. Hopefully I can pick up on the
basics of it pretty quick. At the moment I have been a little confused
about the * and ** next to variable names. Also the & variable names. I
found some resources about it and realize they indicate pointers or
something. I'm just not following the reason to have a pointer instead of
the variable. I'm sure it will become clear as I continue to learn.

On Thu, Dec 3, 2020, 3:11 PM Jay Schwichtenberg <jschwich53 at comcast.net>
wrote:

> 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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