Post Syndicated from original https://lwn.net/Articles/938409/

The advantages of the Rust programming language are generally well-known;
memory safety is a feature that has attracted a lot of developer attention
over the last few years. At the inaugural Embedded
Open Source Summit (EOSS), which is an umbrella event for numerous
embedded-related conferences, Martin Mosler presented on using Rust for an
embedded project. In the talk, he showed how easy it is to get up and
running with a Rust-based application on a RISC-V-based development board.