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So, are vendors working on rust toolchains for their hardware? I'm asking from a place of genuine curiosity, I left embedded a number of years ago. I've always
by scruple 9y ago
So, are vendors working on rust toolchains for their hardware? I'm asking from a place of genuine curiosity, I left embedded a number of years ago. I've always viewed the 'rust breaking into embedded' problem as a toolchain issue, as well. But, my intuition is that vendors will be slow to release rust support in toolchains because the industry is still firmly in the "we write in C" camp.
- steveklabnik 9y agoThat's what I meant by challenges; it's pretty much "can LLVM support the chip and then did someone put in the compiler work in rustc", rather than "vendors are directly providing Rust support." Your intuition is mine as well.
- analog31 9y agoThis is an interesting thread... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14071282 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14071282 In my view the industry inertia is a chicken and egg thing. You want a chip that runs your existing code. Then you want to write new code on your existing chip. And you have ongoing projects at different stages, sharing chips and code.