Anyone programming on a Saturday afternoon?

[Casawi]

Originally posted by: zoiks

Originally posted by: Casawi

Originally posted by: duragezic
Yeah, I need to program some B-MAC protocol on these Sun SPOTs.

My guess is I'll just get started looking over documentation and whatnot, and give up. It doesn't need to be done for a few days.

My only assignments this semester is either programming this Freescale micro, or programming these Sun SPOTs. Java makes things so much easier, I always want to mess with the SPOTs, as opposed to the Freescale beast that is just way more complicated and tedious with C.

There is lots of support for Java. I will choose that over C anytime.
But again sometime u just need to use C, but if you have a decent compiler and a nice IDE ...C isn't so bad.
I used Microchip MPLAB with a CCS compiler and that shit is junk. the IDe would just close and disappear sometimes !!!! yeah talk about a nice development environment.

I don't get it, how big companies like Microchip suck so bad at software. I guess its free and I can't complain too much.
They release new versions so often without fixing major problems.

Most of the Engineers at my company program on Emacs or some other text editor. I work with a lot of different C/C++ compilers for embedded platforms and with the exception of perhaps Intel IAR, Metrowerks CodeWarrior, MSVC/XCode or the old WindRiver Tornado compilers (which use IDE's), most other compilers are used via the command line. I work for a static source code analysis software that detects bugs in code so I use different compilers often.

I looked into purchasing IAR compiler for work... but I didn't think it was worth the money. I used it in college for a small project, it was cool, but free. Paying for it is just not worth it.
I think it was like 4k, and I ended up getting CCS compiler for $180... works great for what I paid for it.

 

[zoiks]

Originally posted by: Casawi

Originally posted by: zoiks

Originally posted by: Casawi

Originally posted by: duragezic
Yeah, I need to program some B-MAC protocol on these Sun SPOTs.

My guess is I'll just get started looking over documentation and whatnot, and give up. It doesn't need to be done for a few days.

My only assignments this semester is either programming this Freescale micro, or programming these Sun SPOTs. Java makes things so much easier, I always want to mess with the SPOTs, as opposed to the Freescale beast that is just way more complicated and tedious with C.

There is lots of support for Java. I will choose that over C anytime.
But again sometime u just need to use C, but if you have a decent compiler and a nice IDE ...C isn't so bad.
I used Microchip MPLAB with a CCS compiler and that shit is junk. the IDe would just close and disappear sometimes !!!! yeah talk about a nice development environment.

I don't get it, how big companies like Microchip suck so bad at software. I guess its free and I can't complain too much.
They release new versions so often without fixing major problems.

Most of the Engineers at my company program on Emacs or some other text editor. I work with a lot of different C/C++ compilers for embedded platforms and with the exception of perhaps Intel IAR, Metrowerks CodeWarrior, MSVC/XCode or the old WindRiver Tornado compilers (which use IDE's), most other compilers are used via the command line. I work for a static source code analysis software that detects bugs in code so I use different compilers often.

I looked into purchasing IAR compiler for work... but I didn't think it was worth the money. I used it in college for a small project, it was cool, but free. Paying for it is just not worth it.
I think it was like 4k, and I ended up getting CCS compiler for $180... works great for what I paid for it.

Most shops that I work with just use gcc which is free. I believe that IAR is just another variant of gcc (not free).
There are a number of IDE's that you can download for free that can be used with gcc. Google Search brings a few. If need be you could always use the CDT plugin with Eclipse that uses gcc.

 

[Casawi]

Originally posted by: zoiks

Originally posted by: Casawi

Originally posted by: zoiks

Originally posted by: Casawi

Originally posted by: duragezic
Yeah, I need to program some B-MAC protocol on these Sun SPOTs.

My guess is I'll just get started looking over documentation and whatnot, and give up. It doesn't need to be done for a few days.

My only assignments this semester is either programming this Freescale micro, or programming these Sun SPOTs. Java makes things so much easier, I always want to mess with the SPOTs, as opposed to the Freescale beast that is just way more complicated and tedious with C.

There is lots of support for Java. I will choose that over C anytime.
But again sometime u just need to use C, but if you have a decent compiler and a nice IDE ...C isn't so bad.
I used Microchip MPLAB with a CCS compiler and that shit is junk. the IDe would just close and disappear sometimes !!!! yeah talk about a nice development environment.

I don't get it, how big companies like Microchip suck so bad at software. I guess its free and I can't complain too much.
They release new versions so often without fixing major problems.

Most of the Engineers at my company program on Emacs or some other text editor. I work with a lot of different C/C++ compilers for embedded platforms and with the exception of perhaps Intel IAR, Metrowerks CodeWarrior, MSVC/XCode or the old WindRiver Tornado compilers (which use IDE's), most other compilers are used via the command line. I work for a static source code analysis software that detects bugs in code so I use different compilers often.

I looked into purchasing IAR compiler for work... but I didn't think it was worth the money. I used it in college for a small project, it was cool, but free. Paying for it is just not worth it.
I think it was like 4k, and I ended up getting CCS compiler for $180... works great for what I paid for it.

Most shops that I work with just use gcc which is free. I believe that IAR is just another variant of gcc (not free).
There are a number of IDE's that you can download for free that can be used with gcc. Google Search brings a few. If need be you could always use the CDT plugin with Eclipse that uses gcc.

Well I need a compiler that will work with the MPLab IDE since I use the ICD2000 (maybe that what it is) the hockey puck looking programmer thing. The CCS was very nice with decent support.
We are way too far in the prject to switch... Plus I think we will be changing processors as well in the second quarter of the year to an 8051 core. the reason for that is that the 8051 provide core you can buy, and put in ur ASIC design.

 

[TruePaige]

I'm working on some code. I'm not a very good coder though, but it's lightweight and does what I want, though it does jump a few hoops.