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stavros on Aug 2, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust on BBC micro:bit

> And, in the end, it is truly portable and usually the fastest of any other implementation

It definitely is, and, when I need these things, I will write the program in C. It's very rare for me.

eggy on Aug 3, 2016 [–]

What devices are you writing for, and what type of app? I was programming my Pic chips in assembler in the 90s, and C was high-level at that point ;) I needed C for the other chips because I was running timing-critical apps for high-speed CNC implementations.

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