Open discussion: should newRPL change target hardware?

[Ailurus]

(03-08-2015 04:15 PM)bhtooefr Wrote:  I'd say the best bet is to make a platform-independent RPL core, really - low RAM and storage usage, written in a portable language like C (or, write a SysRPL compiler for ARM targets) - and then port it to platforms as needed, with unique front ends for the different platforms. But, that's obviously going to be more work.

If you read the documentation, it clearly states that newRPL is written in C/C++ and that the aim is to make the software pretty portable:

"This project proposes to reimplement from scratch the RPL language made popular by HP programmable calculators, in portable C/C++."

And

"Hardware abstraction layer: This module will run on bare metal hardware and provide the basic services needed for the calculator to function. It will be kept to a minimum, to make porting to a different hardware easier."