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From my experience in the embedded world, the ecosystem doesn't seem super relevant. You may depend on certain libraries for encryption, compression, etc. but y
by jdiez17 3y ago
From my experience in the embedded world, the ecosystem doesn't seem super relevant. You may depend on certain libraries for encryption, compression, etc. but you're more likely than not to be writing drivers for all of your devices more or less from scratch.
Other than Arduino, which of course has pretty good support for many devices and is likely to work out of the box.
- atoav 3y agoIt probably depends on what you do with embedded, I can certainly imagine situations/jobs where you are correct, but I am not in that situation, unfortunately. I can't afford the time to write my own drivers unless I really need/want to. I run an electronics workshop at an artschool, so the end result counts and how we get there is more or less arbitrary unless it happens in a finite timeframe. For my own private projects I tried Rust, but also there my goal is to get things done, not to fool around forever. I like fooling around with the interesting bits, not with rewriting a thing others have written before.
- llm_trw 3y ago>I like fooling around with the interesting bits, not with rewriting a thing others have written before. For some reason the rust community seems to love rewriting things others have done before and not do much new work. At this point the biggest thing holding the language back are its users.