Rust for Embedded Systems: Current State, Challenges and Open Problems

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  • areweguiyet

    A website built for the Rust community

  • egui

    egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native

  • Nothing is wrong with that, it’s rather a workaround, ultimately I am trying to have one language only including the UI too (been playing with egui),so I don’t have to use JavaScript.

    https://github.com/emilk/egui

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  • bazel-c-rust-x86_linux-armv7_baremetal

    demonstrate a rust library that can be tested on a linux PC and deployed on a mostly-C baremetal device

  • I think when bringing up embedded rust it is necessary to specify an application.

    For low level, hard realtime control and interrupt handling rust gets in the way. Many embedded applications stop here. For things like parsing, protocol stacks and business logic rust has a clear advantage. Interoperability with C is therefore essential. The current situation is good for ARM and RISC (ESP32) but impossible for weirder stuff like C28x. (See my demo here: https://github.com/driftregion/bazel-c-rust-x86_linux-armv7_... )

  • I think when bringing up embedded rust it is necessary to specify an application.

    For low level, hard realtime control and interrupt handling rust gets in the way. Many embedded applications stop here. For things like parsing, protocol stacks and business logic rust has a clear advantage. Interoperability with C is therefore essential. The current situation is good for ARM and RISC (ESP32) but impossible for weirder stuff like C28x. (See my demo here: https://github.com/driftregion/bazel-c-rust-x86_linux-armv7_... )

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