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Re:Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang by bregma on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @09:29AM (#22684298)
My day job is maintaining the toolchains for a popular safety-certified realtime embedded operating system. I have never once been asked to provide a Rust toolchain. Fortran, yes. Ada, yes. Python and Go, yes. By and large it's just C (and more and more C++).

Rust seems to be mostly something "full stack developers" and "back end developers" embrace for server-side toys and hobby projects.

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Re:Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang by nicoburns on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @09:59AM (#22684559)
Python, on a realtime embedded operating system? Rust isn't really there for embedded development yet. It's great for low-level code on full-blown processors/OSs though
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Re:Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang by bregma on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @11:27AM (#22685468)
Python: customers ask, I deliver.

Top-end embedded processors have GPUs and hypervisors these days and run AI algorithms to, say, detect lane changes and do parallel-parking maneuvers. These days AI means code written in Python and Fortran.

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