Hi,

Is Fantom been designed for use on embedded platforms, such as field controllers, or is it design to be used for any potential software application?

Fantom was designed explicitly for embedded systems. We are currently running Fantom applications on Atom based embedded controllers running Intel's Linux distro which is called Yocto.

Does that mean that it is not meant to be used to develop a Web app or a desktop app? I thought it could be used wherever JVM or CLR were present. So, what about Tales framework then?

Does that mean that it is not meant to be used to develop a Web app or a desktop app?

Not all at. There are many successful websites and desktop apps built with Fantom. Fantom is a general purpose language. I was only saying that it has been designed to scale down well for embedded devices which might run only J2ME (although J2ME is sort of being phased out for J2SE on embedded devices).