more on Bunnie wanting to get #Precursor #Xous off #Rust, or at least off Rust nightly
on 02024-01-23Bunnie is critical of #Rust due to his experience on the #Precursor and #Xous. “I often ask myself “when is the point we’ll get off the Rust release train”, and the answer I think is when they finally make “alloc” no longer a nightly API. At the moment, no-std targets have no access to the heap, unless they hop on the “nightly” train, in which case you’re back into the Python-esque nightmare of your code routinely breaking with language releases.” Ugh.
#Bunnie’s #Precursor is currently using #VexRiscv on Spartan #FPGA #hardware to defeat #Karger-Thompson #hardware attacks (and other hardware #security problems) but most of the FPGA is devoted to #crypto, mostly cores from #OpenTitan
on 02021-01-24