Re: New IEEE Language Popularity Ratings

[rrr.eee.27@gmail.com]

On Thursday, August 11, 2016 at 2:04:29 AM UTC+2, Paul Rubin wrote:
> The typical IOT gizmo has an ESP8266, which is comparable to a Cortex M3
> without the ARM royalties (different instruction set inspired by MIPS).
> It runs at 80 mhz and has 128k or so of on-chip ram and there's usually
> a megabyte or so of SPI flash on the module.  The wi-fi RF stuff is on
> the chip too so there's a few tiny analog parts and a PCB trace antenna
> on the board, besides the 8266 itself.
> 
> Type ESP8266 into ebay to see how ridicuously cheap this stuff is
> (around 3 dollars in hobbyist quantity).  Quite a powerful 32-bit cpu
> that can run Micropython (micropython.org), Lua (NodeMCU.com), or
> Javascript (espruino.com) nicely.  It's nothing like a quad core ARM.
> Although with the Raspberry Pi Zero at $5 retail, maybe that's coming.
> 

The really determined can also run Ada on ESP8266

https://github.com/RREE/esp8266-ada
https://github.com/RREE/esp8266-ada-rts

I created the repositories and got a working compiler on my home machine about 4 months ago. Unfortunately my hard disk crached before uploading the files to github. I will have to reinstall my computer and redo the work before actually uploading my files. Be patient or try it yourself.

Rolf