Mornin',
I just asked FOSDEM how many speaking positions are still available in the room. I think we should all meet there, give awesome talks and then have an interactive ask us anything / feature wish panel where people with lots of embedded experience but little meta programming skill can tell us what problems they have trouble solving due to lack of library support.
I wouldn’t consider myself knowledgeable enough for a panel in C++, especially when it comes to Metaprogramming and Standard library support. That language and library are so complex, they regularly baffle me. There are quite a lot of languages that work on embedded by now, with even more capable microcontrollers on the market. Also consider the push for even smaller Cortex-A class embedded systems running Linux directly like Googles Brillo, or Amazons IoT platform. It gets more and more difficult to justify C++’s language complexity in this context.
What do you guys think? Who would like to give a talk?
- Odin - Wouter - who for xpcc? Kevin on xpcc and Niklas on how mbed will allow C++11 ;P
I just gave a long talk about something really cool (I’m not spoiling it) as exemplified by xpcc, which was received very well, but I wasn’t planning on giving a talk at FOSDEM’16 though. The submission deadline is the 18th December for Developer Rooms, so I have about 10 days to make up my mind. Let me talk to Kevin and my colleagues first though. Cheers, Niklas