Platform Overview

Flint is MCU-first, but not MCU-only.

The project begins with bare-metal microcontrollers because they are the strictest environment for a language and compiler:

• memory is limited,
• startup is explicit,
• runtime assumptions must stay minimal,
• and the compiler must produce binaries that map closely to the hardware.

That said, Flint is designed with a larger target set in mind. The same language should eventually span:

• MCU firmware,
• native desktop and server binaries,
• and WebAssembly.

The following chapters cover the current target picture and the standard library model that supports it.