[dgacmu]

Authors are from STMicro, polytechnic Turin, Freie universitat Berlin, and Inria. Examined writing firmware for an IOT sensor platform. From the abstract:

> Two teams concurrently developing the same functionality (one in C, one in Rust) are analyzed over a period of several months. A comparative analysis of their approaches, results, and iterative efforts is provided. The analysis and measurements on hardware indicate no strong reason to prefer C over Rust for microcontroller firmware on the basis of memory footprint or execution speed. Furthermore, Ariel OS is shown to provide an efficient and portable system runtime in Rust whose footprint is smaller than that of the state-of-the-art bare-metal C stack traditionally used in this context. It is concluded that Rust is a sound choice today for firmware development in this domain.

[blub]

One of the authors commented below that the “teams” were actually persons and the Rust person was an intern.

This is even less serious than the typical pattern of grabbing random students for experiments and then drawing conclusions about the general population.

[torginus]

Not sure about your life experiences, but every new, from-scratch project I have undertaken has looked like 1-2 or at most 3-4 people on good terms who really pulled their weight, with the rest being basically not dead weight, but the management overhead they caused ate up most of the productivity they brought to the table.

[blub]

Even if that were the case, working in a team is very different from working solo.