Embedded Rust or C Firmware? Lessons from an Industrial Microcontroller Use Case
20 hours ago
- #rust
- #microcontroller
- #firmware
- A study compares Rust and C for microcontroller firmware in an IoT industrial case study.
- Two teams developed the same functionality concurrently: one in C and one in Rust over several months.
- Analysis shows no strong reason to prefer C over Rust regarding memory footprint or execution speed.
- Ariel OS provides an efficient, portable Rust runtime with a smaller footprint than traditional bare-metal C stacks.
- Rust is concluded to be a sound choice for firmware development in this domain.