Thanks x2nie for mentioning Teensy: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12646 I'd sure like to see that working in Free Pascal: http://wiki.freepascal.org/TARGET_Embedded
I'd also like to try using one of the pic32mx chips:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/TARGET_Embedded_Mipsel
Here is the top level wiki page for this stuff:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Embedded
Actually, Teensy is already working with FreePascal and its hardware support has been
recently added to
Pascal eXtended Library by Michael Ring along with other similar chips; it also supports LPC11xx and STM32F4xx series chips as well for Embedded/ARM target. Support for AVR stuff has also been under work for some time.
To get more people involved in "Embedded" target, I was even
giving away for free (including shipping) LPC1115 boards. Unfortunately, absolutely no one from these forums got interested in this stuff, I only got one request from a person in a different forum. It looks like there are only few people involved with electronics in addition to programming, who also happen to use Pascal as their programming language; although, as community, we have people who are very skilled and highly experienced, to me it looks there are very few of us into this stuff really. I also wouldn't be surprised if there are no young people trying "embedded" target in Pascal at all - I don't know anyone working in this area who is not 30+. We're getting old...
There are many new things (Teensy, a powerful IDE released today) mentioned here:
http://www.controlpascal.com/tutorial.htm
I don't know what's wrong with that "ControlPascal" web site, but I could never access it. It always times out in the browser. I could only see it when using proxy located in EU. I wonder if it is blocked, maybe for North/Central America? (I'm located in Mexico)
bit off topic, but i really do wish the raspberry pi foundation would have done more free pascal, i have nothing against python, but from a personal point of view i think pascal is a wonderful language to teach/learn but the biggest thing for me is just how flexible it is. i've used it for basic hardware testing utils when i working in a workshop to client server database applications in my current role.
[rant] I don't know all the details on why Python after getting sunk in niche market, suddenly got massive popularity boost, especially on platforms such as Raspberry PI - likely a big investment by interested parties along with state-of-the-art marketing; in my opinion, it's not right tool for the job. It's reality weirdness, not unlike widescreen vs 4:3 or glossy vs matte displays, where something good gets replaced by something cheaper but worse, and everyone adopts it. [/rant]