You'd be even more impressed if you saw just how little resources they have to use (ram, storage, cpu), or how old of a C standard they have to work with. I have a few friends that work on this.

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sib301 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I am indeed impressed but not at all surprised considering what we used to get to the moon!

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ultrarunner 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Seems like Java is popular at Garmin.

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nradov an hour ago | parent | next [-]

And also — sadly — Monkey C. I cannot imagine what possessed them to invent their own scripting language for wearable device apps. It's sort of like JavaScript but worse and with minimal third-party tooling support.

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/monkey-c/

	▲	Palomides 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		it kinda sucks, but with the constraints it's at least understandable. they wanted an extremely lightweight language with a bytecode VM which could be ported to whatever MCUs in 2015, while also strictly limiting the functionality for battery usage reasons (and, uh, product segmentation/limiting third party access).

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ilikehurdles an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

While I might not trust C code more than Java in life saving equipment, I would trust a median C developer over a Java one.