PikaPython VS rp-hal

PikaPython – ultra-lightweight Python interpreter that runs with only 4KB of RAM, zero dependencies

An ultra-lightweight Python interpreter that runs with only 4KB of RAM, zero dependencies. It is ready to use out of the box without any configuration required and easy to extend with C. Similar project: MicroPython, JerryScript.

A very interesting solution for high level interface access by less professional developers could be seen in pikascript, which works even on very small devices. WAMR is another project with similar capabilities. Both of them can be very well combined with core infrastructure realized as embedded rust code.

pikascript – An ultra-lightweight Python engine that can run with 4KB of RAM

probably, I didn't really check it, but I found [1]. Rust has a lot of support for embedded systems, even from the companies that provide the chips, like STM and Espressif.

[1] https://github.com/rp-rs/rp-hal

About the same time, I was learning Rust and discovered how it could be used on embedded targets from Low Level Learning on YouTube, the video introduced me to the amazing rp-hal crate that provides abstractions to talk to the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller. Getting used to the no_std mode took some time, the most challenging was not being able to collect an iterator to a container.

Well, just as I posted this, I came across the issue on Github: https://github.com/rp-rs/rp-hal/issues/525

Have a read of https://github.com/rp-rs/rp-hal/issues/257 for more info.

I've made an example for a RPI Pico (PR for the RP2040 HAL project here) .

Here's an example: https://github.com/rp-rs/rp-hal/blob/main/boards/rp-pico/examples/pico_usb_twitchy_mouse.rs

Embedded rust for the raspberry pi pico: https://github.com/rp-rs/rp-hal

What are you on about, can you clarify? Rust can compile in no-std/embedded style just as fine (or better) than C can for basically any ARM or RISCV based processor, and quick googling shows this hal for nearly all pi needs and even MEGA65 is "as supported" (read: not at all officially by anything, fan-only) as any current C compiler. Setting up rust for a new target, so long as the code-gen is supported somehow by LLVM, LLVM plugin, LLVM IR transpiler (and maybe libgcc-jit sort of soon) is just as painful or unpainful as setting up a whole team to work via C/C++ with comparable testing harnesses. This doesn't mean easy and is an area Rust is still improving rapidly by the various enterprise agencies (Ferrous systems, Oxide, more I can't remember...) who specifically want to bring rust to such low end hardware because frankly both C and C++ suck with vendor proprietary tool chains and quirks.

He says he can't find crate for 'bare_metal'. He was setting up and testing the HAL for the pico (https://github.com/rp-rs/rp-hal). While compiling it pulls down critical-section-0.2.7/src/lib.rs and bars on line 7