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Re:Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here by nrclark on Saturday February 11, 2017 @02:36AM (#13621608)
You gain Rust's memory-safety, but also you gain all of its meta-programming facilities. Which means all those #define macros become a thing of the past.
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Re:Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here by jononor on Saturday February 11, 2017 @08:12AM (#13622442)
Yes, the expressive type system with zero-cost abstractions that makes me really excited about this!
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