Formatting Is Unreasonably Expensive for Embedded Rust

Re:Formatting Is Unreasonably Expensive for Embedded Rust by trashface on Monday December 09, 2019 @04:23PM (#21746742)

There are 200+ people working on the Rust language, but only single digits are paid for it [1]. I don't take the OP as a complaint, but perhaps the embedded community is going to have to take a stab at fixing this themselves.

[1] https://xampprocky.github.io/public/blog/rust-2021/

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Re:Formatting Is Unreasonably Expensive for Embedded Rust by fra on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @01:40AM (#21750246)

If there's anyone from the embedded community who's taking a stab at fixing rust for that use case, it's James. He's one of the three members of the Rust Embedded Working Group (https://github.com/rust-embedded/wg).

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Re:Formatting Is Unreasonably Expensive for Embedded Rust by na85 on Monday December 09, 2019 @10:12PM (#21749257)

Realistically, the embedded community will just bypass rust and stick with C, C++, and other more suitable languages.

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Re:Formatting Is Unreasonably Expensive for Embedded Rust by pcwalton on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @12:11AM (#21749788)

Embedded Rust usage is growing all the time. The formatting problem is not a blocker; it's just a "papercut" per the article. C and C++ have their fair share of annoyances too.

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Re:Formatting Is Unreasonably Expensive for Embedded Rust by pjmlp on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @06:06AM (#21751427)

The open minded embedded community is getting themselves busy with C++, Ada, Real Time Java, MicroPython, CircuitPython, JerryScript, Pascal, BASIC and Oberon-07.

So Rust can naturally also play there.

Then there is the embedded community stuck on Assembly and C89 mentality, where even C++ doesn't manage to get a foot on, let alone Rust.

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