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by bregma 2272 days ago
My day job is maintaining the toolchains for a popular safety-certified realtime embedded operating system. I have never once been asked to provide a Rust toolchain. Fortran, yes. Ada, yes. Python and Go, yes. By and large it's just C (and more and more C++).

Rust seems to be mostly something "full stack developers" and "back end developers" embrace for server-side toys and hobby projects.
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nicoburns 2272 days ago
Python, on a realtime embedded operating system? Rust isn't really there for embedded development yet. It's great for low-level code on full-blown processors/OSs though
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bregma 2272 days ago
Python: customers ask, I deliver.

Top-end embedded processors have GPUs and hypervisors these days and run AI algorithms to, say, detect lane changes and do parallel-parking maneuvers. These days AI means code written in Python and Fortran.

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