> I've used Rust on a variety of ARM Cortex-M based microcontrollers including Atmel SAMD21, NXP LPC1830, and STM32F4
That's an encouraging start.
Having been there, and as reported on weekly basis by numerous people like @internetofshit, much of the code that runs the current IoT hype is utter and complete tripe. I have a faint hope that Rust could be something to help in that regard, even though at the same time I recognize that much of the badness in IoT has to do with financial considerations (too costly to make a good quality talking coffee-maker). Maybe it's especially because IoT seems to be all about getting cheap stuff out cheaply, I have this hope that at least having the language and development ecosystem help devs instead of shooting them in their foots would be a good start.
That's an encouraging start.
Having been there, and as reported on weekly basis by numerous people like @internetofshit, much of the code that runs the current IoT hype is utter and complete tripe. I have a faint hope that Rust could be something to help in that regard, even though at the same time I recognize that much of the badness in IoT has to do with financial considerations (too costly to make a good quality talking coffee-maker). Maybe it's especially because IoT seems to be all about getting cheap stuff out cheaply, I have this hope that at least having the language and development ecosystem help devs instead of shooting them in their foots would be a good start.