[swift-dev] Cortex M0

[William Dillon]

> On Mar 15, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Tanner Nelson <me at tanner.xyz> wrote:
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>> On Mar 15, 2016, at 4:14 PM, William Dillon <william at housedillon.com> wrote:
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>> I’m no expert on the M0, but I looked it up.  It seems to be Thumb(2) only, and I don’t think thumb support in linux is finished.  This is of course in addition to the *significant* constraints that Dmitri noted.
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> Hopefully someday it will be possible to write iBeacon firmware in Swift :) I know C++ has a lot of compiler flags to remove some exception and runtime type stuff to reduce file size.
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YES, that would be awesome.  I would die happy if I could use Swift (or a language substantially similar) on a PIC32 or MSP430, for example.

- Will