This is a fair description. I want to use Modelica but I can't get out of the Simulink ecosystem just yet.
Do you know if there's a decent C autocoding solution like that of Simulink?
Do you know if there's a decent C autocoding solution like that of Simulink?
But it sounds like you might be talking about autocoding of an embedded controller. In that case, I'm not aware of any tools with that target. Part of this is because Modelica can be used to model the controls, the plant or both. But for autocoding you'd need a clear partitioning and some way of connecting the controls to a scheduler. But I don't know of a Modelica tool that supports this. My hope is that the next generation of tools will address this (that's part of my day job ;-)).
And yes, I'm talking about autocoding of an embedded controller. Which also means the C code has to be ready for that (hard real time, carefully controlled calls to libraries, no heap allocation, etc.)
Right now Simulink embedded coder can be (and is) used to generate production code for all sorts of aerospace vehicles (rockets/spacecraft/drones/etc). The moment any Modelica tool can be used like this I'll take a very serious look.
This renews my interest in Modelica...
As for C code, we're working on it through JuliaSim. JuliaSim's modeling language is very similar to Modelica in some aspects (Mike Tiller who is in this thread and the author of many of the main Modelica teaching tools is also one of the creators of this language), though there were some breaks which were required in order to make better downstream integrations with the Julia stack and in order to modernize development workflows (integrations with package management, some new langauge features, etc.). Part of what we're trying to do is solve exactly where Modelica got stuck: embedded code generation and other "non-GUI workflows" (CI/CD for example) and making those first-class integrated with the declarative modeling language. There's still a good amount of work to do but we've already started trickling out some results in this direction and running workshops on the tools at Modelica conferences.