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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: 0.201s | 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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whazor ◴[14 Oct 24 09:41 UTC] No.41835870[source]▶
Getting Rust developers to become Embedded Engineers is very interesting. Since it is easier to learn Rust than it is to learn C.
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1. wyager ◴[14 Oct 24 17:40 UTC] No.41839838[source]▶
I think writing broken C is easier than writing correct Rust is easier than writing correct C.

A lot of C(++) devs just like that they can mostly get away with writing broken code