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That's super cool! I have been wondering what could be done with ESP32 if it weren't for the lack of RAM.

As a fun of Rust, one thing that saddens me is knowing these things would be difficult to achieve with a Rust compiler, given the language seems to be vastly more complex.

Unless someone created a subset of Rust without (some?) safety checks, I guess.

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Right, Rust is more complex, and it is the complex bits that make it Rust. There are sure some shortcuts possible for starters, for example scope-based lifetimes like in early Rust versions, but still, to make it a worthwhile upgrade over C, it would take some intermediate representation, and definitely more than 700 lines.

There is a lively movement for coding in Rust for esp32, that works, just not on the device I think.

I would love to see something like C with a borrow checker and Result/Option but not the fancy type system.

The big question is whether or not that is even possible. My money is on 'no'.

Everything that was possible on PCs with MS-DOS.

I think people have no clue how powerful ESP 32 actually is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_PC1512

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