User LarryP in the Adafruit forums writes about experiencing the use of tinyGo to program an Adafruit ItsyBitsy M0 microcontroller.
I’m pleased to report success installing and testing tinyGo (https://tinygo.org/) on an Itsy Bitsy M0. Just blinking the red LED, but I find golang on bare silicon pretty promising!
A few key details:
The #tinygo channel of gophers.slack.com is *invaluable*. I got help from the compiler developer and another helpful expert; can’t beat that!
FYI, the key help was the (unintuitive-to-me-at-least) need to unset both GOROOT and GOPATH to get tinygo to work
What is tinyGo?
TinyGo (https://tinygo.org/) lets you run Go directly on microcontrollers.
TinyGo has support for 14 different boards such as the Arduino Uno/Adafruit Metro, Adafruit Circuit Playground Express, Adafruit Feather M0, Adafruit Trinket M0, Adafruit ItsyBitsy M0, and BBC micro:bit. Click to see the supported hardware.
LarryP points to this demo video (below) at FOSDEM discussing tinyGo. Great job LarryP!
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