[lacampbell]

Is rust actually used in the embedded world, anywhere? All sorts of languages have been made to run on micro controllers, from Pascal to Scheme.

[scandox]

Got talking to a dude on the phone (random call about something totally non-technical). Turned out he was an embedded systems engineer in the Nuclear industry. Uses Forth for everything. He strongly encouraged me to use it for any embedded hobby project.

[jlewallen]

JeeLabs has some stuff on Forth in the uC world: http://jeelabs.org/2016/02/dive-into-forth/

[swah]

I love that jeelabs blog.. Also, some languages running on esp8266:

https://github.com/yesco/esp-lisp

https://github.com/zeroflag/punyforth

https://micropython.org/

(and of course lua which i didn't try because its official... https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware)

[lacampbell]

damn that looks fun. as if I didn't already have enough things I want to learn...

[swah]

Charles Moore?

[nine_k]

Not many languages can be made to run efficiently on a 83 MHz core with few kbytes of RAM.

Pascal, maybe, but it's about the same thing as C.

Scheme would be nice, but it's both more resource-hungry and the static checking is sort of bolted on.

With Rust's security features I hope we'll have fewer crashing or crackable embedded devices.

[pjmlp]

Pascal, these guys have options for almost all relevant processors.

http://www.mikroe.com/mikropascal/

Scheme, do people actually know how powerful RTL8710 is in regards to the computers used to create Scheme?

RTL8710 has a ARM Cortex M3 @ 166 MHz with 48KB available to user and 1MB flash.

Scheme was developed on the ITS OS, running on PDP-10, which could have up to 256 kilowords (not KB), and ran at about 30 MHz.

I am with you on Rust.

The majority of these tiny devices have more resources than 70's mainframes, that used safer systems programming languages.