Why settle for one programming language when you can have five? Using one language for all devices might actually be a bit tricky, so we have decided to use optimized languages for several of our features. Let’s go through them!
Python
Our favourite language is of course python. The simple yet beautiful language that is possible to use in so many ways! In our solution it is used on the raspberry pi to read sensor data from the arduino and push it to the cloud.
C++
Moving on we have C++ on our Arduinos. This is the language we use to write the sketches that read data from our many, many sensors!
Go!
It may sound easy to simply “Go” but do not let the name of the language fool you. Go is the language that we use for our cloud function that loads data from pub/sub into our Cloud SQL database.
Swift
Programming an iOS application without using swift is just plain wrong, so of course we use swift. This is used for the design of the app and some of the logic in getting the data from our App engine API.
Objective-C
But why settle for Swift in an application? We like to use some objective-C as well, just to mix it up a bit! We use objective-C to convert our temperature from celsius to fahrenheit, to appeal to our american users as well as the european.
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