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> He never said it was embedded. > We needed a language that was fast enough to allow minimum real-time latency and use limited resources of a SoC device.
by reificator 7y ago
> He never said it was embedded.
> We needed a language that was fast enough to allow minimum real-time latency and use limited resources of a SoC device.
- flukus 7y agoSoC also describes a modern phone, rasberry pi, probably even some modern laptops/netbooks. I think it's generally agreed that these are not embedded devices, but the line used to be much blurrier. It sounds like the evaluated their options, added in a few that they were never really going to consider anyway, came to the conclusion that C++ was best but then made up some reasons to use rust anyway.