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11 IoT Programming Languages Worth Knowing
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Susan_Nunziata
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3/9/2015 | 10:59:40 PM
Re: Programming Languages
@cwasser10: Tower of Babel is an apt analogy. My sense is that, with IoT specificaly, it's still such early days that there hasn't been enough time or experimentation for a de facto standard to shake out.
Charlie Babcock
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3/9/2015 | 9:36:14 PM
Go appears to be going strong
Enjoyed your descriptions of Go, Rust and Parasail, Curt. Among the languages I heard mentioned at the Linux Collaborative Summit, an event that attracts Linux kernel developers, Go was the one most frequently mentioned in favorable terms.
Curt Franklin
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3/9/2015 | 9:45:54 AM
Re: Assembler language for embedded systems: please do not
@maddoghall, I've spent time toiling in the assembler mines, starting with PDP-11 and IBM BAL. And I absolutely agree with you: assembler will teach you more about how the processor (and its related systems) works than will any other language.

And I also agree that it's terrible from a productivity standpoint. And I can't even imagine trying to do optimal multi-core assembler code -- it makes my head hurt just to think about it.
Curt Franklin
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3/8/2015 | 5:18:45 PM
Re: Foundational
@danielcawrey, many roads do lead back to C -- just as so many roads lead back to Algol. I agree that being able to use familiar languages will do nohing but help IoT development efforts. Not so very long ago an embedded development project meant spending time learning the very special language specific to the embedded platform. It's nice to be able to remove that particular step from the process.


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