Programming languages tailored for specific tasks and applications, such as MicroZig, are designed to improve upon their predecessors in certain areas, offering additional benefits and features.
MicroZig is aimed at microcontrollers and embedded platforms, seeking to combine the benefits of the C language with additional memory safety and pointer safety measures, a vital feature given the small memory sizes often found on microcontrollers.
Recently, a developer detailed their experience using MicroZig to write an SSD1306 OLED display driver for the Raspberry Pi RP2040 MCU, opting to use the lesser-known language to demonstrate its capabilities, ultimately publishing the resulting codebase.
While the intricacies of the initialization process for the controller proved challenging during the project, the blog post effectively showcases what MicroZig can offer to developers in the field.
