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		Eridrus on Jan 19, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Embedded in Rust: Brave new I/O They could use Julia's "resurrected LLVM "C Backend"" and compile down to C, and then let developers use existing tools to get running on their MCU. Would probably mess with the debugging experience though.

steveklabnik on Jan 19, 2018 | [–]

mrustc would be another path here.

nitrogen on Jan 20, 2018 | [–]

Would probably mess with the debugging experience though.

If the compiler in question supports the #line directive, it might not be too bad.

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