This morning in his blog TechOnline editor-in-chief Patrick Mannion brought to my a attention an interactive, automatic code generator and design environment called ECCM. (for Embedded Controller Code Maker). I went to the website (the URL is revealing, too, in its use of the term lego-code:http://www.lego-code.com/INDEX.htm) and among the claims being made is that ECCM will create assembler code for typical embedded controller applications in less than 4 hours without manual coding required. Mannion wonders aloud, and so did I, if automatic code generation is the wave of the future and, if so, what does this mean for embedded developers? What do you think?
