[warangal]

Thanks for a detailed response!

I also use Nim quite a bit on linux/windows for machine-learning purposes. But even on these systems, It is generally a pain to try to trick Nim into using a compiler not directly supported, as some original hard-coded flags would be incompatible with the one i am trying to use,for example NVCC .

Follow up question, Do you generally use Nim on ESP like chips which run some form of a RTOS, or also on bare-metal micro-controllers ?

[girvo]

Yeah, we deliberately have a fork of Nim that is purely for adding workarounds when we hit small internal things like that — though most of our changes are upstreamed proper now which is nice!

To answer your follow up question; both - we’re in the process of bringing up firmware for the STM32G0 and L4 microcontrollers, and CubeMX is such a pain to try and bind as-is, we started to play with svd2nim and see if we can’t bring up peripherals that way instead. That’s a less well tread path of course, but it’s promising so far. Only downside is that’s more like Rust’s approach of rebuilding the world, but oh well

[warangal]

Really cool to see your approach, didn't know about svd2nim project. Hopefully i will able be to use your approach for some hobby embedded projects.

Thanks again for taking time for a detailed reply!!

[girvo]

Come hang out in the #embedded channel in the Nim Discord/Matrix/IRC :)