Re: STM32F4 Discovery, communication and libraries

[Roy Emmerich <roy.emmerich@gmail.com>]

Hi again Dennis,

I forgot to answer one of your questions:

> 	I suspect a lot of those are being developed by companies for
> proprietary products, possibly using some internal core "OS" for
> interfacing between application code and the board support layer.


Actually no. All of them are open source, community powered projects.

Espruino and Micro Python are being developed by two very bright individuals, both running their operations as a one-man-band, making use of ever growing communities of users to help them.

Gordon Williams is creating Espruino and was funded by a very successful Kickstarter campaign (£100710):

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gfw/espruino-javascript-for-things

Damien George is creating Micro Python and was also funded by an equally successful Kickstarter campaign (£97803):

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/214379695/micro-python-python-for-microcontrollers

Copy and paste from the eLua site:
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eLua is a joint project of Bogdan Marinescu, a software developer from Bucharest and Romania Dado Sutter, head of the Led Lab at PUC-Rio University, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Its origins come from the ReVaLuaTe project, also developed by Bogdan Marinescu (as a contest entry for the 2005 Renesas M16C Design Contest), and the Volta Project, managed by Dado Sutter at PUC-Rio from 2005 to 2007.

eLua is developed in a fully open, distributed and worldwide collaborative model. An ever-growing list of collaborators, from all over the planet, which are also authors of some modules and features, can be found in our Credits Page.


So as you can see this is a VERY different development model to the one Ada is used to. These are people with substantial experience using C and who basically got fed up and wanted an easier way to interface with hardware.

What I find very interesting is they are challenging previously accepted 'norms' and willing to try something new.

I'm trying to select the right path for what I want to do and am also willing to walk the road less travelled.