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> I wish Rust would come to embedded development ASAP running a real time OS written in Rust.

You want someone to write a Rust RTOS? Or would it suffice for a vendor to release a BSP with Rust support? IMO your current RTOS vendor can (and should!) offer this. Lots of existing RTOS companies will vendor a gcc or clang toolchain for their customers. The fact that C and C++ are well specified independent of their implementation really helps, though. But the baseline rust toolchain already provides a lot of what's needed. They "just" need to offer integration with their C library, designate llvm triple(s), etc.

If your RTOS vendor offers support for C and C++ already, chances are you can write rust for your target already. Unfortunately you'll need to stick to no_std until that BSP shows up though. :)




BSP, board support package.

I had to look that up, seem like what you’re talking about here.


Sorry, yes, that's what I meant. It's a soup-to-nuts working+tested configuration of a board, bootstrap code, examples that exercise board features, etc. IIRC this is common for chip/computer/board/RTOS vendors to provide.




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