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kasperl

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    Comment #34929883

    There are ways and we've seen successful integration of C++ libraries and functionality - but it is not what I would call easy yet. Toit is evolving rapidly and we find that being …

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    Comment #34928328

    That's a fair and valid point. I firmly believe that live reloading of individual apps on your ESP32 during development is a big win for productivity, but clearly so is an establis…

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    Comment #34925407

    I also really like MicroPython! Having said that, I have been working on an alternative to it for a number of years now -- primarily to provide a more robust and performant high-le…

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    Comment #34657795

    Thank you! I'll try to get that updated.

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    Comment #34654797

    Thank you for the mention! I have been working on the Toit language for the ESP32 for a number of years now -- and it has been an enjoyable challenge to build an open source stack …

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    Comment #34379614

    I find it strangely mesmerizing to watch sorting algorithms do their thing. Thanks for having fun!

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    Comment #34234526

    Fix for the UTF-8 issue on Windows is in the works: https://github.com/toitlang/toit/pull/1318 . Thanks for bringing this to our attention :)

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    When we wrote the initial version of V8, it was reasonably small :)

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    Comment #32241500

    No V8? The website explicitly says that Blueboat combines Google's state-of-the-art V8 JavaScript engine, process-level snapshots, and Rust to speed up everything from cold start t…

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    Comment #32142877

    Author here. We have been working on enabling modern, high-level software architectures on micro-controllers for some time now and we're at a point where we feel like the bits we'v…

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    Comment #29305664

    It is worth noticing that you enable and disable the serviceability for individual devices when you want to. Your unserviced devices are free and keep running your code. https://to…

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    Comment #29304986

    Oh, and full disclosure: I'm the author of the blog post.

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    Comment #29304973

    Among other things, Toit uses the selector-based row displacement technique for building a compact method dispatch table that can be queried in constant time. If you're into fast v…

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    Comment #26367175

    [Co-author of 'Revolutionizing Embedded Software' -- the linked thesis with the ... not so understated title -- and co-founder of Toit here.] Yeah, there certainly is overlap in so…

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    Comment #15107469

    Don't worry; strong mode will be the only mode going forward and it already is the only mode for Flutter. Not merely optional.

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    Comment #15104764

    Flutter ( http://flutter.io ) strikes an interesting balance here by (1) allowing just-in-time compiled, state-preserving "hot-reloading" during interactive development and (2) sup…

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    Comment #13350087

    ... and Dart is the runner up in terms of gaining popularity in 2016 according to TIOBE.

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    Comment #13106063

    There's a short interview with the author of StageXL, Bernhard Pichler, here: http://news.dartlang.org/2016/12/stagexl-10-chat-with-bernha... .

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    Comment #13100759

    Very active development; see https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOU2XLYxmsILKY-A1kq4e... for a few recent presentations about the progress. (disclaimer: I work on the Dart team…