Rust on Espressif chips
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Rust on Espressif chips
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Re: Rust on Espressif chips
#2I'm curious about this as someone who is interested in making DIY smart home products as well as their recently announced Zigbee radio module.
But genuine question, is Rust ever going to catch on in the mainstream? It seems to have a bunch of nice to have features and great optimization. But the pick up, from what I've seen, has been less than stellar.
Re: Rust on Espressif chips
#3I'm curious about this as someone who is interested in making DIY smart home products as well as their recently announced Zigbee radio module. But genuine question, is Rust ever going to catch on in the mainstream? It seems to have a bunch of nice to have features and great optimization. But the pick up, from what I've seen, has been less than stellar.
From what I've seen in my company there seems to be some resistance to rust due to it already having a lot of code written in other languages and them kinda of being the default go to choice.
Re: Rust on Espressif chips
#4I was looking forward to trying Rust on my ESP32 projects but always had a hard time. All the tooling is too complicated. There is flasher coded in python, IDF coded in C, you need to run MinWin on Windows which makes it even harder. You can't run all of this in docker because docker for windows doesn't allow mapping COM ports into container and stuff.
Everything about just compiling a code seems so tiresome and unstable in comparison with STM or Atmel environment. Yet still I love ESP32 even though I gave up trying to code it in Rust. Even C++ was not working well and had to make several pull requests to add `extern "C"`s into IDF codebase for my code to work.
I'm looking forward to improvements on the Rust environment.
Wouldn't abandoning Xtensa architecture for RISC-V help? Are there any plans to simplify the stack?
Re: Rust on Espressif chips
#5I'm curious about this as someone who is interested in making DIY smart home products as well as their recently announced Zigbee radio module. But genuine question, is Rust ever going to catch on in the mainstream? It seems to have a bunch of nice to have features and great optimization. But the pick up, from what I've seen, has been less than stellar.
In what space? If you're talking about embedded, it's going to be pretty slow for industry to start using rust en masse. There's a huge amount of inertia in embedded, and the developers are somewhat beholden to manufacturers to release tooling around rust.
In the software space, rust is being used by quite a few companies [0].
Re: Rust on Espressif chips
#6I'm curious about this as someone who is interested in making DIY smart home products as well as their recently announced Zigbee radio module. But genuine question, is Rust ever going to catch on in the mainstream? It seems to have a bunch of nice to have features and great optimization. But the pick up, from what I've seen, has been less than stellar.
Rust is gaining momentum at a decent pace IMO. It's not necessarily a web technology so expect slower adoption but still it's been steadily growing.
Re: Rust on Espressif chips
#7I'm curious about this as someone who is interested in making DIY smart home products as well as their recently announced Zigbee radio module. But genuine question, is Rust ever going to catch on in the mainstream? It seems to have a bunch of nice to have features and great optimization. But the pick up, from what I've seen, has been less than stellar.
> But genuine question, is Rust ever going to catch on in the mainstream? It seems to have a bunch of nice to have features and great optimization. But the pick up, from what I've seen, has been less than stellar.
I'm not sure where you've gotten that impression. Rust is mainstream at this point. All the big companies (e.g. FAAMG) are using Rust. Lots of large products are: Firefox of course, but also, parts of AWS, npm, VS Code, Android. And even key infrastructure products like Linux are looking at integrating it.
Re: Rust on Espressif chips
#8I'm curious about this as someone who is interested in making DIY smart home products as well as their recently announced Zigbee radio module. But genuine question, is Rust ever going to catch on in the mainstream? It seems to have a bunch of nice to have features and great optimization. But the pick up, from what I've seen, has been less than stellar.
I think many people are trying to make Rust real deal and some of them make really good job. There was a guy who develops Linux ABI compatible kernel in rust, Tor is being rewritten in to Rust and some of the projects are just amazing.
I believe it will catch on as soon as people realize it's a C performance with modern syntax and memory safety mitigating most of the security flaws and bugs introduced by mismanaged memory.
I fell in love as soon as I saw descriptive scalar types like "i32".
Re: Rust on Espressif chips
#9At first, I thought the article was about oxidizing chips.
Re: Rust on Espressif chips
#10I'm curious about this as someone who is interested in making DIY smart home products as well as their recently announced Zigbee radio module. But genuine question, is Rust ever going to catch on in the mainstream? It seems to have a bunch of nice to have features and great optimization. But the pick up, from what I've seen, has been less than stellar.
Are there specific areas where you would expect to see greater adoption at this point on the curve? "Mainstream" adoption of a brand-new language takes time, and it's still early on the curve for Rust.
If anything, the hype-train might make it seem like it's a more mature ecosystem than it really is. The questions to ask are, what's causing the hype, and does the product deliver.