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The bare metal stack for rust
9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 0 stories, 9 comments · first 2014-12-12 · latest 2017-07-18
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see how zinc does it https://github.com/hackndev/zinc EDIT: Zinc seems to not have been updated in awhile I'm not sure what the current status is of other mcu efforts. I bet some of the other rust folks can elaborate.
comment by johnny22 · 2017-07-18 · in Ask HN: What is preventing rust from replacing c/c++? -
Relevant to your question, there's work towards a bare metal ARM stack for Rust, called Zinc: https://github.com/hackndev/zinc
comment by beefsack · 2017-06-20 · in GERT: Run Go on Bare Metal ARMv7 -
…ways to get it to work, but it's a huge ways away from being useful in a production environment. https://github.com/hackndev/zinc https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html
comment by pdelbarba · 2017-03-28 · in It’s time for a memory safety intervention -
…application code must or should be riddled with unsafe code blocks... For a very simple example see https://github.com/hackndev/zinc/blob/master/examples/blink_...
comment by jononor · 2017-02-12 · in Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here -
https://github.com/hackndev/zinc is one effort in that vein. I'm not sure what else exists though.
comment by johnny22 · 2016-12-29 · in Rust is mostly safety -
…toolchain to use as a linker, and nightly rustc can cross-compile for platforms supported by LLVM. https://github.com/hackndev/zinc is a good starting point. Things like interrupt handlers and statically-allocated global data require big…
comment by kam · 2016-06-03 · in Why is a Rust executable large? -
…be built when needed by a project. This is what we currently do in zinc for core via the hack here: https://github.com/hackndev/zinc/blob/master/Cargo.toml#L27 . Zinc doesn't use std (for obvious reasons). Right now, targeting a raspberry…
comment by posborne · 2015-08-14 · in Rust in 2016 -
…tries[1] and Zinc still looks pretty active[2]. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8035293 2. https://github.com/hackndev/zinc/graphs/commit-activity
comment by kbart · 2014-12-22 · in Rust, an Anti-Sloppy Programming Language -
…/ bare-metal programming, so I was curious if Rust could run directly on ARM boards. I found https://github.com/hackndev/zinc but haven't given it a try yet.
comment by toby · 2014-12-12 · in Rust 1.0: Scheduling the trains