Re:Rust After the Honeymoon
by bsder on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:06PM
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> Pretty often the combination of features you want are not available in an ARM chip.
No argument. But this is becoming less and less true since ARM has even become standard in automotive.
> And sometimes you might be required to work on some strange 32-bit CISC from Renesas just because the salesperson took the purchasing manager to dinner somewhere.
HAH! Been there ... screamed about that.
We're probably not as far apart as you think, if I'm just writing 100 lines, I'll just reach for C and be finished in an hour or two.
My problem is that none of my projects ever stop at 100 lines. They evolve and only get bigger. Eventually they adopt a "stack" (CAN, BLE, TCP/IP, etc.) from some manufacturer, and it's all downhill from there.
I need help to manage that explosion of complexity and the torrent of bugs it creates, and C just doesn't provide it. I don't think I've programmed an embedded device smaller than the original PDP that K&R developed C on in probably 10 years--maybe more.
And this includes FDA cleared products. The days of just sitting on an unchanging product for 15 years after getting clearance are gone.
No argument. But this is becoming less and less true since ARM has even become standard in automotive.
> And sometimes you might be required to work on some strange 32-bit CISC from Renesas just because the salesperson took the purchasing manager to dinner somewhere.
HAH! Been there ... screamed about that.
We're probably not as far apart as you think, if I'm just writing 100 lines, I'll just reach for C and be finished in an hour or two.
My problem is that none of my projects ever stop at 100 lines. They evolve and only get bigger. Eventually they adopt a "stack" (CAN, BLE, TCP/IP, etc.) from some manufacturer, and it's all downhill from there.
I need help to manage that explosion of complexity and the torrent of bugs it creates, and C just doesn't provide it. I don't think I've programmed an embedded device smaller than the original PDP that K&R developed C on in probably 10 years--maybe more.
And this includes FDA cleared products. The days of just sitting on an unchanging product for 15 years after getting clearance are gone.