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Comment by the__alchemist

1 day ago

I've used RTIC in a few cases. In practice, it's a thin wrapper over interrupt handlers and locks on resources in them. These days, I prefer using macros to simplify the (natively onerous: many <> brackets with Mutex, RefCell etc.!) locking and initialization of global variables.

It also has software tasks, which is presumably the Embassy tie-in you mention.

It's very small and focused, but it fits in places Embassy can't. It reminds me in some ways of coroutines, but it can preempt.

The data-sharing maybe could be nicer, but I do think it's an improvement over C -- you get the ability to do things that you might otherwise need something much bigger like Zephyr for.