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ronnier
TinyGo is a project to bring the Go programming language to microcontrollers and modern web browsers by creating a new compiler based on LLVM.

https://tinygo.org/

pjmlp
This is great news, as it is projects like these that prove that C doesn't need to be the only option available.
greatjack613
Great, now we can kill it in 3 years.

Seriously speaking thought, does anyone have any benchmarks in this vs c?

I have used c in the past to build custom thermostats and would love to switch to go. Thoughts?

pjmlp
Given that Pascal, Basic [1], Oberon [2], Java [3], Ada [4] and C++ [5] already exist as alternative to C and Assembly, adding Go seems like has having yet another positive alternative.

Although not TinyGo based, F-Secure's Foundry hardware key runs Go in bare metal [6], they use their own runtime instead, TamaGo.

[1] - https://www.mikroe.com/compilers

[2] - https://www.astrobe.com/default.htm

[3] - https://www.microej.com, https://www.virtenio.com/en/portfolio-items/preonvm/

[4] - http://www.inspirel.com/articles/Ada_On_Cortex.html

[5] - https://www.mbed.com/en/, https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/

[6] - https://www.f-secure.com/en/consulting/foundry