Google announce secure Rust-based OS for embedded system

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  • Killed by Google

    Part guillotine, part graveyard for Google's doomed apps, services, and hardware.

    Or anything made by Google at this point. see killedbygoogle.com

  • tock

    A secure embedded operating system for microcontrollers

    tock is a pretty sweet minimal embedded kernel to run >1 isolated applications that might need to share peripherals.

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  • embassy

    Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async.

    embassy is awesome. It's an async runtime for embedded, and lets you do no-brainer stuff (like doing something while awaiting peripheral data) using the higher level async/await concepts, instead of messing with interrupts/schedulers yourself. This is usable without a full RTOS which is great, you can write some drivers in Rust using async and just call them from C code for existing projects.

  • cross

    “Zero setup” cross compilation and “cross testing” of Rust crates

    The toolchain is right off the bat significantly better than anything I've used with C. cross uses docker images to cross compile to any target, then run that target in QEMU to do unit testing/running/debugging as desired (unit testing is also great in rust by default), with no setup required.

  • embedded-hal

    A Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) for embedded systems

    The ecosystem is great and growing, It really benefits from a language-standard embedded HAL which makes writing cross-platform drivers a cinch - e.g., you can write a bit-banged MDIO driver and use it on anything that has a timer and a two IO pins, from a Zynq Ultrascale to an arduino. Sure, this is possible in C - but Rust really benefits from a less fragmented ecosystem here.

  • awesome-embedded-rust

    Curated list of resources for Embedded and Low-level development in the Rust programming language

    Check out this link for a pretty complete list of supported targets, allocators, PACs, RTOSs, etc.

  • wg

    Coordination repository of the embedded devices Working Group

    Then the Rust Embedded workgroup provides: - Direction on how to using generics and zero-sized types to achieve functional safety - svd2rust, which provides safe abstractions to peripheral access from SVD files and achieves this functional safety - The embedded HAL spec, which makes porting to different vendors/hardware easy - Peripheral access controllers and HALs for various vendors & hardware

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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