Writing a second video game for the Micro:bit in Rust

Not sure the author is posting here, but I&#x27;m curious about people&#x27;s experiences with Rust in these non-stdlib scenarios.<p>In my Rust I rely so heavily on the stdlib, and other crates, that it&#x27;s hard for me to imagine working in an environment where I would not have access to that.

Have you given a thought to Nim? I&#x27;ve never used it in the embedded space, but it should work there nicely. It has Pythonic syntax, but it transpiles to C, so it should fit both your criteria. I&#x27;m not sure how the GC fits in, but i think you can turn it off if it becomes problematic. I&#x27;d love to see the comparison. Rust is powerful, but I&#x27;m guessing a good bit more complicated as well.

Was that &quot;always look on the bright side of life&quot; I heard there?

How much are those add on boards?

While I&#x27;m all for learning Rust on new platforms, I&#x27;m curious why something like Lua wouldn&#x27;t be more appropriate for this particular use case. Maybe Rust was chosen just to scratch an itch, but it seems like the author could have given a little thought to using Lua in this environment, too ..