teensy3-rs
Languages and libraries
embedded rust libraries
SHOW HN2016
137points
43comments
#256of 2,264 in 2016
Top 12%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
10 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score +0.27.
Idea: 7 for, 2 againstDocs: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Excitement that Rust could bring modern languages to embedded systems
From 2 comments
Sweet! The Teensy might be the most accessible ARM dev board right now, so this is great news for embedded rust. Ever since Rust was announced, I've been eagerly awaiting it's…
wyager on HNWoo-Hoo! This is super exciting! Thanks!
splitrocket on HN
Documentation praised as fantastic
From 2 comments
He he, i knew you are lurking somewhere :-). Yeah, i will just have to give it time. Good to hear about the possibility of a LTS release! Any rough estimation about the…
S_I on HNCertainly not easy. And you could forget the concepts if you don't continue with it. But the documentation is great. They've explained everything clearly. If you follow it one by…
knowThySelfx on HN
Objections
Rust lacks certified toolchains and MISRA-style standards support
From 2 comments
Good luck with that. There ain't no way rust is getting a misra complaint setup anytime soon. Not to mention, the current vendors are entrenched in their ways to ridiculous…
hak8or on HNEmbedded dev here too. I worked mostly on bigger (processing power-wise) systems. Actually as big embedded as you can find (PC-level performance), I toy with smaller ones as a…
dpc_pw on HN
Rust is too complex and immature for embedded work
From 2 comments
I do embedded development (for 8051 8 Bit micro controllers), so IMO it has nothing to do with entrenched, and everything to do with with the following (at least from my point of…
S_I on HNEmbedded dev here too. I worked mostly on bigger (processing power-wise) systems. Actually as big embedded as you can find (PC-level performance), I toy with smaller ones as a…
dpc_pw on HN
Stability guarantees and fast development pace are a concern for long-lived code
From 1 comment
I do embedded development (for 8051 8 Bit micro controllers), so IMO it has nothing to do with entrenched, and everything to do with with the following (at least from my point of…
S_I on HN
Requests
A long-term support release of Rust
From 2 comments
``` > input would be appreciated here ``` Ha! :D <3 I mirror what dpc_pw says, but in a slightly different way: while I'm kinda comfy with assembly, I'm not fantastic with it…
steveklabnik on HNHe he, i knew you are lurking somewhere :-). Yeah, i will just have to give it time. Good to hear about the possibility of a LTS release! Any rough estimation about the…
S_I on HN
Questions
Whether Rust output code is predictable enough for real-time work
From 2 comments
I do embedded development (for 8051 8 Bit micro controllers), so IMO it has nothing to do with entrenched, and everything to do with with the following (at least from my point of…
S_I on HN``` > input would be appreciated here ``` Ha! :D <3 I mirror what dpc_pw says, but in a slightly different way: while I'm kinda comfy with assembly, I'm not fantastic with it…
steveklabnik on HN
Alternatives named
C
From 2 comments
With the way rust is developing, it could nudge C as the main programming language for embedded. Kudos this the team.
yitchelle on HNEmbedded dev here too. I worked mostly on bigger (processing power-wise) systems. Actually as big embedded as you can find (PC-level performance), I toy with smaller ones as a…
dpc_pw on HN
C++
From 2 comments
C is easier to learn, hard to use well. Rust is harder to learn, but easier to use well. C is an easier language to learn that Rust because it's simpler. That is deceptive though…
rkangel on HNRust seems very much like modern C++. Borrowing, references and the like have nearly direct analogs to C++ references, unique_ptr and other STL constructs. Except the compiler…
sidlls on HN
Ada
From 1 comment
Those are all running on RTOSes such as RT Linux on an X86/PPC or full ARM platform. Those won't run on an ARM Cortex M chip, where your current options are effectively ASM, Ada,…
toomanybeersies on HN
D
From 1 comment
D seems like an easier language than Rust. It's too bad D didn't catch on.
goatlover on HN