Re:Rust for Embedded Systems: Current state, challenges and ...
by yeeeloit on Monday March 04, 2024 @04:22PM
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Why do you think you might have to go back and to C++?
Re:Rust for Embedded Systems: Current state, challenges and ...
by MSFT_Edging on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @12:06PM
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Industry is firmly in C/C++ land and I'm trying to pivot towards a more embedded career, which would put me in more junior jobs without the political sway to say "lets try embedded rust and contribute back".
There's a couple forward thinking companies like memfault, but it seems to be the minority.
My degree was in CE so I've always played around with embedded projects, but actual design skills have stagnated from being in my field, which trends towards only developing smaller purpose built tools for internal use over products.
At least for the ssd1306 and the sh1106 there is in fact a library for it that works well.
I recently started working on a rust-esp32 project because I'm far too lazy to properly deal with json in C. It was basic, some buttons, a display, an encoder, and a web api but it was a breeze. I'd really like to continue on more complex projects in the future. I've somehow avoided writing C++ in an embedded setting and now I'm afraid I might have to go back and learn that rather than continue with Rust.