crust VS mongoose-os

Compare crust vs mongoose-os and see what are their differences.

crust

SCP (power management) firmware for sunxi SoCs (by crust-firmware)

mongoose-os

Mongoose OS - an IoT Firmware Development Framework. Supported microcontrollers: ESP32, ESP8266, CC3220, CC3200, STM32F4, STM32L4, STM32F7. Amazon AWS IoT, Microsoft Azure, Google IoT Core integrated. Code in C or JavaScript. (by cesanta)
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crust mongoose-os
2 2
149 2,472
2.7% 0.6%
5.7 1.5
8 months ago 4 months ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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crust

Posts with mentions or reviews of crust. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

mongoose-os

Posts with mentions or reviews of mongoose-os. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-08.
  • Toit – A Language Designed for Microcontrollers
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jun 2022
    As long as Toit is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1, I am unlikely to consider using it. By contrast, MicroPython is licensed under the MIT License (MIT).

    As others have noted, Toit seems like a bad name. I suppose non-French speakers will tend to inadvertently mispronounce Toit.

    Getting traction is hard. In my opinion, having a restrictive license and a bad name make it less likely Toit will gain traction. Finally, Toit licensing reminds me of Mongoose OS https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose-os#mongoose-os---an-iot-....

  • CISA Advisory (ICSA-21-119-04) - CyberHoot
    9 projects | /r/u_CyberHoot | 20 Aug 2021
    Cesanta Software mongooses – Update available

What are some alternatives?

When comparing crust and mongoose-os you can also consider the following projects:

edk2 - EDK II

FreeRTOS-Kernel - FreeRTOS kernel files only, submoduled into https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS and various other repos.

nodemcu-firmware - Lua based interactive firmware for ESP8266, ESP8285 and ESP32

zephyr - Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.

sunxi-tools - A collection of command line tools for ARM devices with Allwinner SoCs.

RIOT - RIOT - The friendly OS for IoT

Tasmota - Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at

mbed-os - Arm Mbed OS is a platform operating system designed for the internet of things

IronOS - Open Source Soldering Iron firmware

RFLink - RFLink for ESP, with MQTT client

esp32-snippets - Sample ESP32 snippets and code fragments

IdeasNProjects - *That Project's project repository