Language fads

R-Bloggers has a post about hipster programming languages where they talk about the emergence of Clojure, Scala and Coffeescript.

While I'm not really experienced in any one of them, I wonder about what's the venerable languages that these cool cats are missing. C is a must for the embedded system work that I do for sure and what is cool is often size reduction. In an environment where every byte counts and memory access is key, C remains king.

Now if we can get more lisp or scheme usage in the embedded world.

Latest version of tiny core linux available

Introduction to Tiny Core Linux

Tiny Core Linux is minimal linux distribution. It's really small and comes in 3 flavors

1. Core - which the base system
2. Tiny Core - Core + FLTK based desktop
3. Core Plus - Tiny Core + a lot more

The interesting this is that there are ARMs download as well i.e for RaspberryPi (ARMv6) and AllWinner A10 (ARMv7).

Download Tiny Core Linux

Pick it from http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/downloads.html. The latest release is 5.1 (as of Nov 28, 2013) and details are in the announcement at http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=16293.0