Hi,

How does it compare to FORTH or embedded Lisps?
Some of them are quite performant and well suited to high level language
applications on micros.


Sorry for the drive-by reply. :-)

> In the past few week I have got slightly involved with one project that
> some of you might appreciate. I suppose that some of you Amy have heard
> of a recently developed Rust programming language by Mozilla foundation.
> It's primarily aims are to reduce safety critical errors at compiler
> level and provide simple abstractions to the programmer normally seen in
> higher level languages, such as Ruby and Python, yet being a systems
> language that may potentially be used for an OS implementation instead
> of aging suspects.
>
> I do find Rust a pretty amazing language, and indeed, building on years
> of compiler practice, it has the real potential of becoming the next big
> affair of many embedded systems engineers. It doesn't, however,
> introduce a big overhead in code execution.
>
> The particular project that I have spent some time with is titled Zinc.
> It aims to implement an RTOS-like system that is capable of running on
> bare-metal microcontroller chips. Please check it out and drop any
> feedback to myself or as a question on the mailing list.
>
> http://zinc.rs
> http://rust-lang.org
>
> --
> Ilya
>
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@ndy

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