B.A.S.I.C. for Arduino

I came across this whilst trawling the internet a BASIC complier for arduino. It can be found at https://www.b4x.com/b4r.html. You can embed ‘C’ code and compiles / Uploads using the standard arduino.exe. At a guess it cross complies the basic code into some ‘C’ equivalent and then this is compiled and uploaded by arduino.exe.

I know all the purists out there will say you should be using a real language for this type of job blah blah blah. But if you just want to code something that turns a heater on if the temperature is too low and a fan on if the temperature is too high etc then it maybe the ideal thing. You can apparently look at the code it produces but I haven’t tried it yet. If so people could use it as a basic to C dictionary.

It looks like it may work with stm32 with a little alterations as it uses a boards.txt file to add extra boards.

You can also call existing ‘C’ functions by using a RunNative so you can write wrappers for existing ‘C’ Libraries.

I will have a play with it next week and see how good/bad it is.

PS they also do the same for android and IOS so you can write a project which works partly on an android device an iphone and arduino and only use one language.