Use the right tool for the job: embedded programming

Question

I\'m interested in programming languages well suited for embedded programming. In particular:

Is it possible to program embedded systems in C++? Or is it better to u

Answer 1

Both C and C++ can be used on embedded systems. If you do limit the features of C++ that you use, then it is going to use roughly the same speed and space as C. As for using these additional features, it really depends on your constraints. For example, if you are making a real-time system, then exceptions might not be a good idea, simply because considering the propagation time for exceptions and all the paths through which exceptions can possibly propagate can make hard real-time guarantees quite tough (although, then again, the ACE / Tao real-time CORBA implementation uses exceptions). While templates and RTTI can lead to larger programs, there is a lot of variability in embedded systems, and so depending on your resource constraints, this could be perfectly fine or unacceptable. The same goes for Java. Java (well, technically, the Java programming language with a subset of the Java API) is running on Android, for example, using the Dalvik VM. J2ME runs on a variety of embedded devices. Whether it will or will not work for your application, depends on your particular constraints.