002 - Christopher Hunt

James chats with Christopher Hunt to discuss programming languages, the cost of software abstraction, Bluetooth, and state machines.

Originally Recorded on 2020-12-23.

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Show Notes

• Social Media
  • Twitter
  • Blog
• BASIC Language
• TRS-80 Computer
• 6502 Processor
• Java Virtual Machine - JVM
• Scala programming language
• Spring Company
• Lightbend company
• Akka concurrency toolkit
• Heap and Stack memory
• Garbage Collection
• Boost Libraries
• Memory Leaks
• CORBA Architecture
• Sun RPC
• Instagram removing Python GC
• Reference Counting
• @withoutboats on 'A smaller Rust', and 'Revisiting a smaller Rust'
• Pareto principle - or, the 80/20 rule
• PalmPilot PDA
• Memory leaks and missiles
• Tail call or Tail Recursion
• Family Tree of Programming Languages
• Functional Safety and IEC 61508
• Type States in Embedded Rust
• Hardware in the Loop testing for embedded systems
• Nordic Semiconductor, the nrfx sdk, and their support forum
• Finite State Machines and Hierarchical (or UML) State Machines
• bindgen and cbindgen - tools for easier FFI with Rust
• The RTIC Concurrency Framework for embedded systems
• The "Jones Trick"
• Serde serialization framework, and the Nom parser combinator library
• James' talk on Serde and message serialization
• ZephyrOS - a Real Time OS for embedded systems
• ContikiOS - a lightweight RTOS
• James' opinions on RTOSs as an X-Y problem
• embedded-hal based portability
• The nrf-softdevice crate, built by @dirbaio at Akiles and the embassy embedded async project
• Jonas' Rubble bluetooth protocol stack
• The rust-embedded Matrix Room
• The Matrix chat protocol
• Farmify

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Credits

Thanks to Louie Zong for the music.