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Favorite microcontroller language?

I like C++ a lot, specifically I love OOP and the STL. If I had to write everything in plain C I would end up writing a lot of boilerplate code ('\0' supporting strings structures and functions; and container-alike structures and functions), time I would rather like to spend on the system functionality. Still, C++ is not well supported on microcontroller, as plain C has been the defacto for a long time.

 

What is your favourite language when programming microcontrollers and why?

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  • in reply to clem57

    "I only mentioned it for anyone thinking of languages."

     

    As far as I understand it (so far), it is a 'framework' and not a language. Python is the language whereas PYNQ is the framework providing all the drivers, API's, libraries to allow Python to play nicely with the Zynq hardware, resulting in the 'Python productivity for Zynq'.

     

    As for microcontrollers, it perhaps gets a little more 'interesting' when you start to use the Jupyter Notebook 'magic's' within the PYNQ framework to additionally write code blocks in other languages such as C to run on the PicoBlaze/MicroBlaze soft processors implemented in the FPGA hardware... Xilinx after all refer to PicoBlaze as an 8-bit microcontroller core.