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Re: [paho-dev] API Suggestion on the Embedded Paho MQTT Client
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Is there a particular reason you're not using the C++ version?
Well, the main reason is attracting a larger audience. We are mainly
writing the code for embedded boards, and there're certain boards
(Cypress PSoC 4, for example) that make it very hard, if not impossible
to use C++ instead of C.
I know that things are getting better everyday, and these occasions are
becoming rarer and rarer. But personally, I still think C version still
has its use case :) Any thoughts?
Ian,
you're correct when you write that things are getting better, due also
to wider adoption of GCC on embedded systems development (without Linux,
Cortex M0-M4 etc).
But: there's still a wide audience for applications written in C and
this is also true in situations where C++ would be applicable. As an
example lots of developers using Keil uVision are not willing to switch
to C++ due to existing knowledge, confidence on debugging techniques
that would require different approaches, existing code base etc. and
this rules a lot when choosing a language while working in partnership
with existing departments of big companies.
On the other hand it still happens that while looking for existing
opensource solutions to a deep embedded problem, one of main the
obstacles is exactly the wide availability of C++ (only) based examples
and code base.
--
Stefano Costa
http://www.bluewind.it
