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Embedded Rust in Production?

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205 points michidk | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 06:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.315s | source
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baq ◴[14 Oct 24 07:45 UTC] No.41835199[source]▶
As expected, the people problem is the biggest factor. Turns out getting C folks to learn Rust is a difficult proposition (hello, lkml) but the other way around it isn't too much of a problem.

I wonder how much of it is low-level experienced developers only ever using C fail to see that C is not the universally best tool (or, 'if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail' question).

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dunefox ◴[14 Oct 24 07:57 UTC] No.41835262[source]▶
> I wonder how much of it is low-level experienced developers only ever using C fail to see that C is not the universally best tool

I'd say that's it. From my own experience with software developers, convincing some of them to learn something new is practically impossible.

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1. netdevnet ◴[14 Oct 24 12:48 UTC] No.41837027[source]▶
It's a RoI. Are you just telling them to learn something new or are you explaining the benefits and costs of learning Rust when they could be learning X?