2022-05-16 Cross Team Collaboration Fun Times (CTCFT)

Rust

Rust's async team shares updates on their work to bring Rust to embedded systems, including a generic library for serial ports, async internals, and exploring traits for concurrency and error handling.

Key takeaways

The Rust async team is working on a generic library for working with serial ports, making it easy to create applications for embedded systems.
The async internals in Rust use a waker to signal an async executor that there’s work to do in a task.
The automotive industry is looking at Rust for its safety features, with ongoing work on creating standards documents.
Developing for embedded systems is more like developing for Rust than developing for desktop or server systems.
Rust’s traits offer a solution to concurrency issues in embedded systems.
The Rust embedded working group is coordinating efforts to bring Rust into Autosar Adaptive, a standard operating system for the automotive industry.
The team is also working on a production-ready framework, Embassy, to make async programming easier in embedded systems.
The Rust standard library is being adapted for use in embedded systems, allowing for async programming without the need for a heap.
The team is also exploring the use of traits to create generic libraries for working with embedded systems.
Rust’s error handling features, such as ?, are particularly useful in error-prone embedded systems.
The upcoming TokOS and Habris projects will bring Rust to more embedded systems platforms.
The Rust embedded working group has a coordination repository at Rust-embedded/wg.

2022-05-16 Cross Team Collaboration Fun Times (CTCFT)

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