[ELECTRON] Beginners Programming

[Martin McGrath]

On 18 April 2013 23:36, Blair Thompson <mail at justblair.co.uk> wrote:

> Depends on your choice of microprocessor. Arduino is where my experience
> lies and it's c++ based as well as being about the most popular platform
> for beginners.
>
> Anything I have seen for the msp430 has been in c++ as well. Though I know
> you can develop in c with it.
>
> But I am no expert in these matters. The only pic stuff I ever did was in
> a language called Jal that never really took off.
>

Ah Microprocessor vs Microcontroller.

IIRC the Arduino core libs are written in C and C++, most of the
application code I've seen is written in C.

Plain old C has many advantages, less bloat, less runtime overheads etc
which I'd have thought would have made it more appealing that C++ for the
Arduino, given the fairly limited resources.

Cheers

Martin
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