12 Rust Without the Standard Library
Rust is intended to be a language for systems programming, but it isn’t always clear what that really means. At the very least, a systems programming language is usually expected to allow the programmer to write programs that do not rely on the operating system and can run directly on the hardware, whether that is a thousand-core supercomputer or an embedded device with a single-core ARM processor with a clock speed of 72MHz and 256KiB of memory.
In this chapter, we’ll take a look at how you can use Rust in unorthodox environments, such as those without an operating system, or those that don’t even have ...
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