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hannesfurlast Thursday at 11:36 PM1 replyview on HN

Maybe stuff has changed a lot in the last year but I didn’t experience that problem so far. For me it was the other way around mostly. Where did you encounter that?


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the__alchemistlast Thursday at 11:38 PM

I've had to consistently write my own libraries. HAL for STM32, LoRa support, hardware support for every sensor I use (GPS, IMUs, mag, flash memory etc), ESP-Hosted library, etc. Whenever I design something new or change parts, my assumption is I will have to write my own interface for it. It's not too bad, but is a friction point compared to if I had written the firmware in C or C++.

On the other hand, the rust embedded core tooling including the cargo/rustc/it's target system, probe-rs, defmt, and the PAC project are phenomenal, and make the most important parts one of the lowest-friction embedded workflows around!

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