[MarkMarine]

I’m really really pumped about the rust stack, for two big reasons.

1. The innovation and performance you’re talking about.

2. Hiring. We’re going to be able to be on a flashy language, doing something cool which isn’t always the case with embedded. We’ve had a hell of a time getting candidates in that could write low level code competently. Rust should make that easier and hopefully using it will make us more attractive to the small pool of devs we’re courting.

[MrBuddyCasino]

My impression is that a certain kind of people find the challenges of embedded work attractive, but leave it sooner or later since the pay is not competitive with generic (but more boring) webdev. I guess this is due to the nature of thin margins in manufacturing hardware?

[MarkMarine]

Depends what you’re building and where I guess. I didn’t get a pay cut moving from BE distributed services to embedded.