When you’re writing code involving global state and interrupts, and any access to an integer larger than a u8 needs to be surrounded by cli() and sei() just for guaranteed atomicity, then you will truly come to value rust’s statically enforced thread / memory safety.
Are those still in use? With how cheap modern MCUs got, it kinda seems like it often makes more sense to get smth a bit more powerful and get the benefits of overall easier and faster development. May be wrong here, tho – it’s not like I compared numbers or something
Addit: I mean, 8 bit may easily still be a bit cheaper, yet corps will likely spend more than the difference in price paying devs
I have used both C and Rust for embedded. Rust is significantly more enjoyable. https://embassy.dev/
C is good for nothing.
Even for small 4/8 bit soc systems?
I had the idea that C was the go-to language for that.
Yes: https://github.com/avr-rust
When you’re writing code involving global state and interrupts, and any access to an integer larger than a u8 needs to be surrounded by cli() and sei() just for guaranteed atomicity, then you will truly come to value rust’s statically enforced thread / memory safety.
Are those still in use? With how cheap modern MCUs got, it kinda seems like it often makes more sense to get smth a bit more powerful and get the benefits of overall easier and faster development. May be wrong here, tho – it’s not like I compared numbers or something
Addit: I mean, 8 bit may easily still be a bit cheaper, yet corps will likely spend more than the difference in price paying devs
There’s Assembly for those
It probably won’t do anything less than 32bit, so that’s at least one thing C is good for.
@excitingburp @NocturnalMorning “C is good for nothing because I don’t enjoy it” yea that’s some big brain logic right there