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There are some who do use rust for microcontrollers. Rust's defaults unfortunately do make for large binary sizes, but there are things that can be done to get similar sized binaries to C. Rust does need to make them more accessible, though.
From the rust FAQ: https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/faq.html#why-do-rust-programs-have-larger-binary-sizes-than-C-programs
This is older and unofficial but still informative: https://lifthrasiir.github.io/rustlog/why-is-a-rust-executable-large.html
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There are some who do use rust for microcontrollers. Rust's defaults unfortunately do make for large binary sizes, but there are things that can be done to get similar sized binaries to C. Rust does need to make them more accessible, though.
From the rust FAQ: https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/faq.html#why-do-rust-programs-have-larger-binary-sizes-than-C-programs
This is older and unofficial but still informative: https://lifthrasiir.github.io/rustlog/why-is-a-rust-executable-large.html