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1. jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2018 17:53:51 UTC jjg

   How do you feel about Rust (lang) for system/embedded/etc. programming?

   Is it reasonable for targeting ARM, RISC-V, etc.?

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   • Vertigo (vertigo@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2018 19:11:28 UTC Vertigo

     • drpeeper

     @drpeeper @jjg Some thoughts:

     1. Rust isn't OO, although it has OO-like capabilities. Code bloat mostly comes from parametric polymorphism.

     2. You can build binaries without the standard library, just as you can in C.

     3. I find rust pretty compelling even as an "expert-level" C coder (been using C since 1985). It catches mistakes that I still make in C today. In fact, I'd explicitly state that rust is *not* for beginners.

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