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Re:The Embedded Rust Book by bsder on Saturday April 27, 2019 @06:29PM (#19768029)
> Is there seriously still a commercial reason to use the ATmega328 (an 8-bit microcontroller with 2000 bytes of RAM) for new projects?

For anything commercial? Almost certainly not.

For one-off makers/non-engineers? Maybe. The Arduino ecosystem is really hard to beat for non-programmers.

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Re:The Embedded Rust Book by ddingus on Saturday April 27, 2019 @07:51PM (#19768415)
Toys. The 6502 is still being used in them, as well as in many basic UX tasks.

Same for many of these devices. Mature libraries, low cost, ease of use all play a part.

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