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Niklas Adolfsson
Niklas Adolfsson is embedded software developer at Cybercom in Sweden. He received a B.S. degree at in Electrical at University of Borås and is currently pursing a MSc. in Computer Science at Chalmers University. He is also a contributor to Tock and has worked as a dependability engineer at SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden.
In this talk, I’ll share my experience evaluating Rust as a basis for building Internet of Things (IoT) applications down to the bare metal.
In principle, Rust’s combination of memory safety and low runtime overhead makes it an ideal candidate for building IoT applications which currently are almost the exclusive domain of C and C++. As part of my master’s studies, we ported Tock, an embedded operating system written in Rust, to a Bluetooth Low Energy SoC processor.
In the end, we found that Rust is usable for building IoT applications with similar power consumption as production C implementations.