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by progman 3434 days ago
Wouldn't Rust be overkill?

I think Forth is much more suitable here. You can implement a lot of features in 512K. You can extend the code (and language!) at runtime, you can debug remotely, and do other nice things.

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Yes, but Forth doesn't have a borrow checker, so how will you know you're using memory safely?
These Rust trolls (at least I hope, for your sake, that you are trolling here and not serious) are getting annoying.

One would wonder how we managed to cope before Rust. Also, you should ask these guys [1] [2] how they know they're using memory safely. Has Rust ever been used to fly aircraft and fricking space shuttles? I didn't think so.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110204160744/http://forth.gsfc...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware