[bschwindHN]

I think the issue here is being new to Rust. I moved to embedded Rust after using C and it's a breath of fresh air to have the type system catch so many things for me. But I was already proficient in Rust before I made that move.

The RP2040 in particular is pretty great though, being able to flash firmware with `cargo run--release` is amazing, and I can use tools like probe-rs and defmt to help debug my firmware.

My only "complaint" at the moment is a bit of immaturity in the USB side of things but I get it, USB is a pretty complicated stack and it'll just take time for things to mature.

For reference, here's some keyboard firmware I wrote for the RP2040. To me it feels reasonably high level and concise for something that drives a real world USB device (as simple a keyboards may be)

https://github.com/bschwind/key-ripper/tree/main/firmware

[adhoc_slime]

Thanks, for the repo link! The build/release process for the rp2040 and package management is actually what drew me to rust for embedded initially, super quick turn around to writing to fiddling with the hardware.

I think you're right about it being new to rust, and I recognise my folly in learning both embedded and rust in parallel. I wish I could go back and un-burn myself on it.