[plt-scheme] Suitability of typed scheme for replacement of c language for microcontrollers

Seth Burleigh wrote at 02/20/2010 09:20 PM:
> I am in general interested in programming microcontrollers.

I have an Arduino project that would be nice to do in Scheme, perhaps 
using an existing Scheme->C in front of avr-gcc.  I wasn't thinking that 
static typing is necessary, and I don't need "call/cc" directly, but I 
am concerned about GC (its resource demands, and doing it with real-time 
constraints).

A related idea I was toying with would be to create a new "#lang" 
language that starts as a transliteration of the Arduino C dialect into 
sexps, then add a more Scheme-y-looking veneer that is entirely syntax 
transformations (still probably keeping static type declaration) and a 
"define-syntax", then see what you still really miss for the things you 
want to do on the Arduino side.

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