Re: STM32F4 Discovery, communication and libraries

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

On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 03:40:55 UTC+2, gdo...@gmail.com  wrote:
> Roy, if you ever decide to give C another shot, not necessarily for this project, try deitel and deitel C how to program, it's an easy read. and make sure you use comp.lang.c. they a active, helpful and nice too.

Thanks for the tip and thanks to all the wonderful folk on this form for their fantastically vibrant discussion. It is much appreciated!

To be honest, I am taking a serious look at www.nuttx.org. It looks very mature and there are a number of projects doing similar things that are using it (e.g. https://pixhawk.org)

I realise that from reading the Ada for Micontrollers Linkedin post and the subsequent discussions that will begin to take place at http://www.adaformicrocontrollers.com that it will be a while yet before the dust settles following the launch of the GNAT GPL for ARM. The foundations are certainly there for a great foundation to build on but for somebody like me I would feel very alone going with Ada since there is still so much low level stuff which needs to be generated and I'd prefer to be working at the system level (i.e. combining building blocks).

> as a newbie, i like Ada. i hope you can do your project completely in Ada.

I will certainly keep an eye on it. Maybe for the next project or unless I can be convinced otherwise ;)

I'd better get back to reading that C book and finally come to terms with pointers...