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Orual
@nonbinary.computer

unironically best thing about embedded rust is that you can basically write arduino (pin.set_high()) but it'll compile to something efficient in a lot of cases. the HAL crate layer is where you do unsafe mostly, and you can write drivers targeting the safe abstraction and they work crossplatform

Orual@nonbinary.computer

believe it or not, it is so much more pleasant. also very little devicd driver stuff in rust needs to be unsafe past the basic register flips.

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Orual
@nonbinary.computer

and that means that when you're getting into the guts and everything is very unsafe and manual, it's for a specific reason and your goal is often simpler, to build a good abstraction that lets the compiler handle the constraints from that point on.