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Does "ARM support" include bare-metal arm at all? I know there are several projects that move in that direction, but it's not obvious to me how mature they are
by rck 11y ago
Does "ARM support" include bare-metal arm at all? I know there are several projects that move in that direction, but it's not obvious to me how mature they are relative to the rest of Rust (granting that everything in the ecosystem is in an early state)...
- kibwen 11y agoRust exists to support Servo, and Servo's most important platform may very well be Android. I expect that Rust will see a lot of interest by hobbyists who hack the compiler to work with various fringe platforms, but in terms of official support I wouldn't expect Mozilla and Samsung to contribute anything beyond what's required for Android.
- shmerl 11y agoI hope Servo will be important for non Android mobile Linux as well.
- sinistersnare 11y agoRust builds for straight up ARM, see https://zinc.rs/ https://zinc.rs/ Now we only need to dependencies for Servo to move along and it could work. I would imagine this would be a lot of work for the OpenGL implementation they use.
- shmerl 11y agoI should try building Rust with Mer SDK. Would be useful for Nemo, Sailfish and Plasma Active. Weren't Samsung also working on Servo? Did they consider it for Tizen as well?
- higherpurpose 11y agoThey should keep in mind that the Vulkan API is also coming soon, and I imagine it will be integrated in Android 7.0 next year.
- ZeroGravitas 11y agoI have a vague memory that the Samsung work was partly done by their non-Android Bada OS team, which would make sense as Android is in many ways tied to Webkit/Blink/Chrome.