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> suitable as a C replacement

nope. they all are. all depends on the use case. if your use case is "must do 100% of what C can do, no exceptions" then of course that leaves one option. but for many programmers the trade offs today are not in favor of C, and haven't been for some years.

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WhereIsTheTruth2y ago· 2 in thread

Programmers doesn't define requirements, the task define the requirements

If you need to target very tiny boards, none from that list are suitable C replacements, _maybe_ zig and D with betterC since they both provide an inline assembler

Otherwise we'll end up with companies using Raspberry Pi 4 for their fleet of scooters because "i can run nodejs on it" (hyperbole, but you get the idea) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37016842

kawogi2y ago

Not sure if that counts, but I successfully wrote Rust programs for several embedded systems and microcontollers.

The smallest one was an ATTiny 13A (64 bytes of RAM).

lelanthran2y ago

> Not sure if that counts, but I successfully wrote Rust programs for several embedded systems and microcontollers.

> The smallest one was an ATTiny 13A (64 bytes of RAM).

It counts, but at that point (64bytes of RAM) there is no benefit to using Rust.

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