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> my experiences in Oberon-2 (I work with it)

really interesting that you work with something as niche as Oberon! :)

Can you talk about who is using Oberon, for what, and why?

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About the what, I can't tell you too much unfortunately. We do realtime OS for autonomous robots in Oberon. About the why, it's a question of heritage from the past. The code works, so why taking the risk to migrate it. It's really a big code base, so migrating it would be (will be...) very risky for all of our running platforms.

That's amazing. Which compiler are you using?

In-house compiler, specifically made for the architecture that we sell, we have to maintain it but we rarely touch it. I am quite sure that it was related to System3, I know that we used to use System3 in the past. But this part I am not sure, as I am quite young and I personally never worked with it. Unfortunately it's not open-source, but it's just a standard compiler pretty much without optimization. In our case, it's the responsibility of the developer to write optimal code, since our compiler does help. I'd be curious to chat about your version of embedded Oberon, I will write to you !

Bluebotics, in Switzerland, has its whole embedded box written in Oberon.

Cool product, terrible boomer management.

I wasn't aware of them, most likely same path as Oberon microsystems which ended up creating Component Pascal, I was quite fond of, unfortunely didn't survive against Java and .NET.

Nowadays Oberon microsystems business has nothing to do with Oberon.

I can assure you that company's Oberon code base is alive and will outlive COBOL.

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