awesome-embedded-rust

Thanks! I knew no Rust at all before starting. Yikes was it frustrating to learn a completely new language. I had to go through the whole rust book, not skipping any basics, in order to get there. I also assigned myself a homework assignment to get used to the concepts. See the other blog post on wyldcard.io/blog Honestly, by the time I got to the finished prototype, I could have just done the whole thing with Javascript. Although intending to use an SDM32F7 for the finished project, it was really convenient to use a raspberry pi for development. Using VS Code, I could program remotely on the pi from my Mac and iterate really quickly. the awesome-embedded-rust[1] repo was very helpful. TBH, embedded rust really feels like it's not ready for hobbysists who aren't embedded experts already. [1] https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedd

I don't think the poor quality code is due to Rust itself. I think manpower is a big part of it. Rust doesn't inherently lead to good quality code, which the article implies. Re code examples - Here's the Rust Awesome Embedded List - a collection of tools (especially hardware support drivesr) - https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedded-rust Most of them aren't suitable for use in practical projects; they're missing important features like non-blocking operation, low-power modes, DMA etc - these are all things that will come up in embedded projects, but aren't needed for the "hello world" examples they include. Part of this is from attempting to conform to embedded-HAL traits, which support only the broadest feature sets.

Another alternative is rust. https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedded-rust I intend to have a try of both rust and tinygo. Micropython is only ok on an esp32 with psram.

See Tock OS https://www.tockos.org/ for another Rust-based embedded OS with a fairly comparable design to Hubris. The debugging capabilities of Humility make an interesting comparison to what's provided by cargo-embed https://probe.rs/docs/tools/cargo-embed/ and the Knurling Tools https://knurling.ferrous-systems.com/tools/ by Ferrous Systems. Ultimately, the embedded space (including all sorts of low-level, retro, "bare-metal", remote etc. programming) has common needs and it would be convenient to see more widespread cooperation among these projects, improving reliability and avoiding wasteful duplication of work. More resources at https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedded-rust