I disagree completely. Python's app stack is far too big and has compilation problems on many toolchains. You would be increasing build complexity and size. Which is a concern on multiple embedded targets.<br><br>-Matt<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dr@jones.dk">dr@jones.dk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 08:57:37PM -0600, Anthony Papillion wrote:<br>
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I'm about to begin work again on a privacy program that I believe will fit within the Freedom Box goals. Originally, I was going to develop it as a desktop application in Python but, as someone pointed out yesterday, Python isn't the right choice for embedded development, so I want to base it on a language that could be used in the project.<br>
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Obviously, C is probably acceptable. But are there any other languages that would fit well within the Freedom Box architecture?<br>
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Python is sensible to use on a Plug device, I believe.<br>
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Perhaps those discouraging it are people intending to use something else than the devices proposed in the talks by Eben Moglen, spawning this very project?<br>
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That said, you are right that lightweight is good. But reinventing wheels might cause poorer code or slower progress than using well-established modules, plugins, libraries etc. in existing languages.<br>
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It very much depend on what kind of thingy it is you consider coding.<br>
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(not that I am asking you to elaborate on your particular project: don't expect me to comment on it here, as I consider this project to be about building on existing and already packaged code, not inventing new stuff)<br>
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Good luck with whatever it is you are working on :-)<br>
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