Not working on new Arduino..

[Curnelius]

On the new boards using ARM processors, like the Zero, which are the future of MCU's, you get an error on compilation :

fatal error: avr/io.h: No such file or directory
#include "avr/io.h"

Wonder if its possible at all ?

[creationix]

Back when I looked at porting bitlash to the esp8266 I found that it makes a lot of assumptions about avr and arduino. It's a very simple language, it might make sense to re-implement it for other platforms. If we're going to do that then it might be time to re-evaluate the language decisions in light of the more powerful 32-bit processors.

This is an area in which I'm doing active research and would love to collaborate with someone.

[Curnelius]

Thats right. I would like to read more about the design patterns required to write it again like a "pro", do you have something in mined ?

[q2dg]

Oooh, I would be really great if there was an platform-agnostic Bitlash. Really really great.
On the other hand, last commit in this github was more than two years ago...so maybe it's time to reboot.

[creationix]

@q2dg what exactly about bitlash (as compared to JS, lua, ruby, python, forth, lisp) do you like? Is is just the idea of scripting on a microcontroller in general or do you like the specific design of bitlash?

[q2dg]

The idea of real-time interaction with the microcontroller as if I was in a telnet session (with the possibility of creating own scripts to run on it, yes) . Thanks.

[creationix]

@billroy Would you be opposed to a new language being implemented that borrows heavily from the design of bitlash?

[billroy]

Quite the contrary - I would encourage forks and forward experimentation in new directions!

-br

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[q2dg]

I haven't the technical skill to opinate about it. I'd only want front-end syntax were similar to Arduino's one.

[creationix]

Arduino is just C++ within a framework/library. It's not the easiest syntax to parse, but it's certainly the most popular style (JavaScript/Java/C/C++/C#/PHP/etc are all C-like syntax)