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dockerdan
8y

What would be the best "hot"/upcoming languages for a final year college project?

The project will focus on reverse engineering.

Basic Example: Intercepting signals from products such as a toy helicopters/drones/etc, reverse engineer the signals and try gain control of the device from that.

That's just a very basic function and there will be much more to it, but I'm struggling to decide on a language to pursue hand-in-hand with this project!

I hear Rust, Go, Julia and co being tossed around a lot.

Any suggestions would be helpful!

Cheers

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  • 4
    8y
    Python!

    Sounds like a lot of the work will be dynamic in the form of research / investigations. A dynamic, interactive language like python will work well here, allowing you to look at the data (signals), tweak things and re-run bits of code without a full edit-compile cycle.

    Use a decent IDE like pycharm or similar so you get a proper debugger.
  • 2
    8y
    @spl0 Cheers mate! One of my lecturers recommended Python too and linked me this video (quite helpful):

    http://wiki.gkbrk.com/Hotel_Music.h...

    I already have experience with Python and that's why I was reluctant to use it, but it just seems to be such a great contender for this project, that I might just stick with it 😅
  • 1
    8y
    @dockerdan Great! If you know python, even better! That way you can spend your time solving the real problem, rather than messing with a new language just for the sake of it!

    Plenty of time to learn new languages later, get the project sorted first! Sounds like a cool project too - good luck with it!
  • 1
    8y
    I too would say to go with a lang you already know and focus on solving the project 😊

    I learn new tech with personal projects most od the time
  • 0
    8y
    checkout y combinators list there is a startup doing this.
  • 1
    8y
    Stick with python. I think you want to do somethinlike this, don't you?: http://hackaday.com/2013/12/... ?
  • 1
    8y
    @mikabeckerich The base idea will be much the same yes, but obviously I'll change it up, add other functionality and whatnot. (Great link by the way, never spotted it before).
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