Kit Rhett Aultman
This weekend, I gave neovim a whirl and liked it, set up a very productive Rust environment in neovim, but together a shell of a RISC-V bare metal project in Rust, and got it running on qemu sufficiently to print a "Hello World" through the UART. And I did most of that in an afternoon.
Yep. It's been a good weekend.
Kit Rhett Aultman
This is actually something I've been trying to find the time to do for months. I ordered some RISC-V boards to play around with back in February and just haven't had the bandwidth since then. And I figured rather than just doing another project in C, why not try Rust, since its embedded support has come a long way.
Kit Rhett Aultman
Rust is something I used to see as a language with a lot of potential "one day" but surrounded in a massive cloud of hype. It has virtually everything I could want at the language level, but the unstable ABI and immaturity in the bare metal space kept me away for a while. But I've seen it expand well in the spaces I work, so I figured why the hell not. For a portable hobby hacking project, the worst that could happen is I'd learn something.
Kit Rhett Aultman
Going from toolchain setup to UART debugging in an afternoon is a pretty impressive feat of ergonomics, and I've never really had a complaint about the language's features itself. I'll be curious to see if my velocity and comfort hold out as I start putting more features into this little bare metal executive I'm writing.
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