LambdaNative, a development environment bringing functional programming to mobile and embedded application development, is being primed for expansion to the Internet of things.
The open source cross-platform environment was written in the Scheme language and enables sharing of modular code between applications. "LambdaNative is a software development kit that manages the details of delivering applications on diverse platforms, beyond the scope of the Scheme compiler itself," LambdaNative team lead Chris Petersen said. "This includes the handling of application resources, artwork generation, code signing, packaging, as well as cross-compilation of supporting libraries. This functionality reduces the complexities of app development, and helps reduce the overall development time."