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Erm, Rust-as-designed may or may not be suited for embedded, but Rust-as-it-is-now has some nasty limitations - not the least of which is the lack of support fo
by JoachimSchipper 10y ago
Erm, Rust-as-designed may or may not be suited for embedded, but Rust-as-it-is-now has some nasty limitations - not the least of which is the lack of support for anything that is not ARM.
- StavrosK 10y agoSorry, I meant "now that Rust exists", not "as tooling currently is".
- steveklabnik 10y ago> not the least of which is the lack of support for anything that is not ARM. This might be true with regards to embedded architectures, but isn't in general; MIPS and PowerPC are in tree, and we can fundamentally support anything LLVM can, there's just the initial work to get it going. Which platforms are most important to you?
- StavrosK 10y agoIt's too bad that nobody is replying to you. Personally, I would be over the moon if I could develop for the ESP8266 in Rust, but that might be a tall order, since it's a very small chip.
- steveklabnik 10y agoFunny enough, when researching this, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9573390 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9573390 It seems like a lot of people are interested in this, but there isn't an LLVM backend yet. There is someone working on a Rust -> C transpiler, so if that matures enough...