Rust has been developed since when Mozilla started to sponsor it in 2009, with a specific goal: to create a web browser. Even after 2018, the core team of developers works for Mozilla Foundation, whose main business is to build client-side web applications. Such software is multiplatform, but oriented exclusively toward the following requirements:
- Random-access memory (RAM): At least 1 GB
- Supported CPUs: Initially only x86 and x86_64; later, also ARM and ARM64.
- Supported operating systems: Linux, Windows, macOS
These requirements excluded most microcontrollers as the Mozilla Foundation was not interested in such platforms, though the features of Rust appear to be a good match with the requirements of many embedded systems with more constrained requirements. Therefore, thanks to a worldwide group of volunteers, in 2018, the Embedded Working Group was created to develop the ecosystem needed to use Rust on embedded systems—that is, on bare-metal or on stripped-down...
