# FYI: 16-bit support in LLVM; any idea if easy to support it/8-bit micros/MCUs in Julia?

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**Created:** [December 7, 2018, 10:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fyi-16-bit-support-in-llvm-any-idea-if-easy-to-support-it-8-bit-micros-mcus-in-julia/18416 "2018-12-07T10:56:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 8, 2018, 4:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fyi-16-bit-support-in-llvm-any-idea-if-easy-to-support-it-8-bit-micros-mcus-in-julia/18416/10 "2018-12-08T04:41:17Z")

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It might be possible to write a julia → nim / chapel transpiler, which then could compile to C/C++, and then you would give it to the arduino IDE to compile for the MCU. Errors would be a bit of a headache though, and the 8-bit environment is usually very constrained, ie 2K ram and 16/32K of program storage is probably at the higher end

It seems avr32 may be able to run older linux kernels, but a raspberry pi zero would probably be cheaper and far better supported (at 10$ delivered here i may even get myself one from santa… )

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