[AlbertoGP]

I took a look and realized that I wasn’t yet ready for it.

Last year a recruiter contacted me about assisting Volkswagen transition from C++ to Rust for their CARIAD embedded automotive platform.

My experience with Rust is only on application development, not embedded systems, but the job sounded quite interesting and I took a look at Embedded Rust. After discussing it a bit with them, my response to them was to recommend going with someone else, because the way Rust is used in that domain amounts to almost a different language and my experience was not adequate. I said that what they needed was someone that had battled with those arcane details already, not a Rust generalist.

I do think Rust would be good for such systems, but that at the moment it’s weighted down by architecture astronautics.