Go — a modern programming language with roots at Google — is one of the new generation languages that would like to unseat C (and C++) for what we think of as traditional programming. It is only for PCs, though, right? Not so fast! TinyGo provides a compiler that — in their words — is for small places. How small? They can target code for the Arduino Uno or the BBC micro:bit. It can also produce code for x86 or ARM Linux (both 32- and 64-bit) as well as WebAssembly. They claim that a recent project to add ESP8266 and EPS32 support to LLVM will eventually enable TinyGo to target those platforms, too.

As you would expect, there are some subtle differences between TinyGo and the full-blown version. The compiler handles the entire program at once which is slower but offers more for optimization. Certain optimizations for interface methods are not used in TinyGo, and global variable handling changes to accommodate moving data from flash to RAM efficiently. TinyGo passes parameters in registers.

Other changes are more profound. For example, there’s no garbage collection yet, so you are urged to not perform heap allocations after initialization. There are also a few other major features not supported. Concurrency in the form of goroutines and channels, cgo, reflection, and three index slices won’t work. Maps are available, but only with certain key types. Because of the missing pieces, many of the packages in the standard library won’t build.

Of course, the other modern language in the same position is Rust and if you were wondering why Go instead of Rust, there’s an FAQ for that. Do you need Go on the Arduino? Maybe not. However, if you are a Go programmer, maybe this opens up some possibilities for you.

TinyGo Brings Go To Arduino

https://superuser.com/questions/556192/how-to-use-ffmpeg-to-encode-a-file-with-possible-error

You have just ripped a movie from a DVD and you want to store it in a compressed format with multi-language audio tracks, subtitles and high quality video.

https://www.internalpointers.com/post/convert-vob-files-mkv-ffmpeg

avconv -i infile.mkv -c:a copy -c:v copy outfile.avi

This will not modify the quality.

avconv -i infile.mkv -c:a ac3 -ab 96k -ac 2 -c:v mpeg4 -s 640x352 -b 800k -bufsize 20M outfile.avi

This should change size to ‘ripped’ avi of medium quality (not tested).

https://askubuntu.com/questions/520584/how-can-i-convert-a-9-5-gb-mkv-file-to-mpg-or-avi-with-avconv

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-clearing-out-master-boot-record-dd-command/

while read -r f
do 
  count=$(($count+1))
  echo "Count is at ${count}"
done < <(ls)

Source: Variable incremented in bash while loop resets to 0 when loop finishes – Stack Overflow

Source: files – How do I loop through only directories in bash? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

Source: files – How do I loop through only directories in bash? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

bash yourscript

Source: How do I execute a file from a FAT USB drive? – Ask Ubuntu

Source: escaping – Bash script to cd to directory with spaces in pathname – Stack Overflow

Source: BASH Shell: For Loop File Names With Spaces – nixCraft