Hi Ilya
I have joined the zinc mailing list, perhaps you can provide some basic getting started text to cover:
1) Hardware required (setups you know work currently with Zinc) I assume just Mbed 17xx or STM32F4 discovery right now 2) Toochain setup for compiling 3) Loading code/debugging target
That will help us with the on-ramp and testing to support your efforts.
Thanks
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Ilya Dmitrichenko <errordeveloper@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Andy,
Rust is a compiled language, it's compiler is LLVM-based. One can either use llc or GNU ld to produce runable machine code.
Zinc comes with minimal run-time support libraries, which is somewhat smaller then Rust's standrad runtime. It should perform as good as C.
Currently only ARMv7-M chips are supported, no AVR or MSP430 yet...
Zinc's aim is to pove the concept that most MCU code can be done in Rust, with a tiny bit of assembly required right now... Supposedly that will go away soon too, it's just a workaround for multitasking at the very moment, until the Rust compiler is fixed.
Cheers,
Ilya
On 8 July 2014 23:11, Andy Bennett andyjpb@ashurst.eu.org wrote:
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
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