FLOSS Weekly Episode 809: Pi4J – Stable And Boring On The Raspberry Pi

Java on a Raspberry Pi sounds like an odd pairing to some developers, but it opens the door to a huge ecosystem for anyone who already knows the language. Pi4J wraps the low-level pins and buses behind a clean Java API, so reading a sensor or driving an LED stays familiar. Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles invited Frank Delporte on FLOSS Weekly Episode 809 to dig into how the project got here and why “stable and boring” is a compliment.

What we talked about

• What Pi4J is and the IO interfaces it covers (GPIO, SPI, I2C, and more)
• Why Java is a solid choice for Raspberry Pi projects
• How the project has changed since its early days
• The current state of the libraries and what “stable and boring” means in practice
• The community around Pi4J and the Java on the Pi ecosystem

See the FLOSS Weekly Episode 809 page for all info, shownotes, links, etc.