Raspberry Pi Showcases Rust On The RP2350 Microcontroller

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Raspberry Pi Showcases Rust On The RP2350 Microcontroller

While C tends to be the go-to launguage for microcontrollers, Raspberry Pi is promoting the prospects of using Rust on their RP2350 microcontroller...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-RP2350-Rust

[Doomsdayrs]

Commenting first to leave a good vibe.

It's really cool to see how people utilize new tools in new ways and interesting ways!

[hajj_3]

I wonder whether they will make a proper raspberry pi with risc-v cores instead of arm cores or in this instance arm+risc-v.

[intelfx]

Good shit.

I'm going to be writing some code in a few months for a piece of hardware on an RP series MCU (as a freelancer; waiting on another guy to finalize the HW design) — now I know I'll be doing it in a language that's actually worth a damn

[fitzie]

We're almost out of time here and i suspect part of the problem here is that you are trying to convince everyone to switch over to the religion as promulgated by rust and the reality is that ain't gonna happen.

[amxfonseca]

I'm going to be writing some code in a few months for a piece of hardware on an RP series MCU

You should also take a look at Embassy. A compact embedded framework that uses Rust + async.

I see a lot of activity happening lately relating to Rust on embedded.

[Quackdoc]

I wonder whether they will make a proper raspberry pi with risc-v cores instead of arm cores or in this instance arm+risc-v.

probably not for a little bit. risc-v is "ready" as a hardware platform, but the software isn't quite there yet. don't forget that a LOT of the stuff isn't going to be 1:1 compatible, a lot of stuff will ofc, but it does matter.

[ari55]

pac.WATCHDOG shouldn't be p.WATCHDOG ?

[intelfx]

We're almost out of time here and i suspect part of the problem here is that you are trying to convince everyone to switch over to the religion as promulgated by rust and the reality is that ain't gonna happen.

Who are you even talking to?

[ahrs]

probably not for a little bit. risc-v is "ready" as a hardware platform, but the software isn't quite there yet. don't forget that a LOT of the stuff isn't going to be 1:1 compatible, a lot of stuff will ofc, but it does matter.

The "software" being the proprietary drivers and firmware for whatever other junk they're going to add on the SOC. Linux is ready, distros are ready, the only thing that's not is the hardware.