cortex-m VS probe-run

I do not have as strong of feelings as your parent, but:

1. A lot of the APIs make use of the typestate pattern, which is nice, but also very verbose, and might turn many people off.

2. The generated API documentation for the lower level crates relies on you knowing the feel for how it generates the various APIs. It can take some time to get used to, especially if you're used to the better documentation of the broader ecosystem.

3. A bunch of the ecosystem crates assume the "I am running one program in ring0" kind of thing, and not "I have an RTOS" sort of case. See the discussion in https://github.com/rust-embedded/cortex-m/issues/233 for example.

For cortex-m support, check out the cortex-m crate

See https://github.com/rust-embedded/cortex-m/tree/master/panic-semihosting

I don't think so. Once a function is compiled, it basically becomes a black box with a type signature so unless sleeping in a function affects its signature, that information is erased. If you pass in some kind of a sleep token that has to be used to sleep, then yeah I think you could enforce it by only being able to get that token in a non-atomic context and making it leak proof.

The Cortex-M crate does something similar, but for proving that you are in an atomic context. Another function that expects a CriticalSection type is then assured that it's running without interrupts enabled.

https://github.com/rust-embedded/cortex-m/blob/master/src/in...

Install probe-run (this is optional, but makes flashing easier)

This made me want to try getting some of these tools running. Probe run looked so handy, but it just doesn't work for me.

For flashing, Check out Kurling's Probe-run, and related tools like defmt, as well as their app template.

You don't need a USB file system for a convenient dev experience. In fact you can achieve an even more integrated experience with Rust today, on essentially any Cortex-M microcontroller if you set up probe-run. It makes cargo run flash and run the code on your microcontroller and can even be invoked with rust-analyzer's run button or an IDE command.

I've been looking for a way to debug my application like I would from GDB (ie: set breakpoints, inspect registers, step, etc.) but I haven't found any documentation on how to accomplish this with probe-run.