avr-rust

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avr-rust / rust-legacy-fork

rust-legacy-fork

[deprecated; merged upstream] A fork of the Rust programming language with AVR support

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[deprecated; merged upstream] A fork of the Rust programming language with AVR support

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2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	3
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	3

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contingencies·Apr 28, 2019

I did find that but described as a fork, it is 11 commits ahead, 5210 commits behind rust-lang:master. The only activity in the last month is https://github.com/avr-rust/rust/pull/137 ... which seems to be you talking to the void. Honestly, and I don't mean this to sound rude, I assumed it was a dead project. Well done for persisting!

In The Embedded Rust Book

shepmaster·Apr 28, 2019

We are slowly working on AVR support both in LLVM and Rust. https://github.com/avr-rust/rust

In The Embedded Rust Book

shepmaster·Apr 28, 2019

We are slowly working on AVR support both in LLVM and Rust. https://github.com/avr-rust/rust

In The Embedded Rust Book

nickez·Mar 14, 2018

You can run Rust on atmegas. It doesn't get much more small, but it can get a lot more exotic. https://github.com/avr-rust/rust

In Why Is SQLite Coded in C? (2017)

erickt·Sep 17, 2017

Yeah, there's progress on 8-bit and 16-bit support. We're tracking our work on improving Rust for embedded systems in this roadmap issue [1], with details in this RFC repo [2]. As part of that, we have preliminary support for the 16 bit cpu MSP430 in-tree [3], and a fork for the 8-bit AVR in [4]. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-roadmap/issues/15 [2]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/rfcs [3]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/rfcs/issues/20 [4]: https://github.com/avr-rust/rust

In Discover the world of microcontrollers through Rust

CorvusCrypto·Dec 27, 2016

Idk if I share your enthusiasm, but rust is pretty cool. Certainly has its uses though for bare metal I'd still say go with C (and ASM) if using atmel's AVR chips. At least until rust gets a working compiler to AVR. Seems it is getting ever closer https://github.com/avr-rust/rust

In The Resurgence of C Programming

davidcuddeback·Jun 3, 2016

> I've made useful firmware for a micro-controller (yes in Rust) Would you mind sharing which microcontroller and how to get a Rust compiler for it? I would love to use Rust to program microcontrollers. Every time I've looked into this, I've thought it wasn't possible, because I don't see any microcontrollers in the list of supported platforms here (https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/getting-started.html#platform...) or here (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/mk/cfg). I've considered trying avr-rust (https://github.com/avr-rust/rust), but the README says "NOTE: This does not currently work due to a bug." Any pointers to get started would be appreciated.

In Why is a Rust executable large?

shepmaster·Mar 8, 2016

> Perhaps rust could be made to easily run on a µc at that point! That's being worked on: https://github.com/avr-rust/rust Note that it's mainly the same developer behind the LLVM support as well: https://github.com/avr-llvm/llvm

In LLVM 3.8 Release Notes