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I think a lot of people don’t realize that for people at the bottom of the stack Rust is almost a revolution. We’ve had basically no alternative other than C,

I think a lot of people don’t realize that for people at the bottom of the stack Rust is almost a revolution. We’ve had basically no alternative other than C, with a lot of failed attempts at half supported C++. A lot of us suffered the horrible experience of working with severely lacking C++ compilers in the embedded space. Unless you were working with ARM or on top of linux, C++ was a bad idea.

gmueckl 5y ago
C++ on bare metal microcontrollers works quite well. I've done that. You have pretty much the same restrictions as C or rust in that space, even though they look a bit different due how C++ works. But then again, you also need learn which parts of C or rust you can use in that environment.
- xondono 5y ago
  Let me guess, you’ve done it with ARM microcontrollers. Pretty much until ARM, support was terrible.
  - gmueckl 5y ago
    The codebase was originally written for V850 and quite mature by the time I joined. It was ported to ARM.