Eclipse Mita – A New Programming Language for the Embedded IoT

IIRC, Microsoft developed a programming language called P that is also centered around events; I seem to recall they wrote the USB stack in Windows 8/8.1 in it.

The approach to memory management in Mita looks interesting, at least for realtime system.

Looks a lot like Arduino’s “language” that was a thinwrapped C++.

Then there is Processing which is a DSL of sorts and this Mita look like them trying to simplify the wrong part of task.

It is not complex to split your program into particular blocks - how you connect blocks and if these blocks are the “right size”, what blocks you actually need etc. THAT needs simpler means to develop faster.

And this id about IoT - hopefully measurements and units are handled well and that last “thing”.. security, yeees that one needs simpler solutions!

This was released in May ... "Eclipse Mita was initially developed by Bosch Connected Devices and Solutions with the help of itemis. It was first implemented for the XDK Workbench, the IDE for Bosch’s XDK device, where the language is currently called XDK Live."

"The framework comes with two sets of C code generators: application code generators and platform specific code generators. Application code generators know how to transform Mita language constructs like event handlers, for-each loops, or exceptions into valid C code. On the other hand, the platform specific code generators know how to access your hardware’s sensor data or which register values to write to make your LED blink."

https://blogs.itemis.com/en/eclipse-mita-bringing-software-d...

What is the end result with this? If you have no embedded experience and want to build a product how does this help? How are you suppose to spin custom hardware if you 1. have no embedded experience and 2. are wrapped up in this abstraction which only lets you access some undocumented iot IC(s) + a handful of sensors.

Just a gimmick, really.

Such an uninspiring idea that would be underdeveloped and underused.. People should focus on more important aspects in IoT (security, scalability, privacy etc) and use existing solutions with better design to achieve the goals of this project without this project.