undefined | Better HN

0 pointsOldGoodNewBad5y ago0 comments

These new languages are way too big to build themselves on MS-DOS and there are already good compilers. And the runtime will be huge too, compared to native hosted compilers designed for a constrained platform. Nobody does embedded Rust or Go or whatever you have.

0 comments

4 comments · 2 top-level

hollerith5y ago· 2 in thread

>Nobody does embedded Rust

Oh yes they do.

Rust is used for embedded work because (like C and unlike most languages) it is easy to arrange for the output of a Rust compiler to work without any runtime library.

OldGoodNewBadOP5y ago

No they don’t. I’ve never ever heard of embedded Rust. Not saying it’s impossible but it just doesn’t happen.

fzzzy5y ago

There has been a massive amount of embedded rust activity for at least 5 years.

1 more reply

hansor5y ago

That's what I'm asking about. Those NIM, V-LANG etc claims to be super small and fast languages - but yet, they do not have small standalone compilers.

In contrast there are plenty of C/C++ compilers - but I'm not interested in those languages(boring and DJGPP[gcc/g++ for DOS) are too big for machine with 120MB of disk space).

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse