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[โ€“] [email protected] 54 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Am I dumb or what's up with the radio stuff on the left? ๐Ÿ˜… Is rust common for some sort of radio programming?

[โ€“] [email protected] 84 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

The image was modified, I think the original said something like "we're gonna listen to Russian number stations on shortwave radio"

[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago

I'm still down.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Thats so much better ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think the original text was about ham radio.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

And yet it's still relevant because HAM radio operators are weird like that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Check this guy out, doesn't even have any radio equipment in his IDE

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

I mean, presumably there's a microcontroller in this radio. For programming that, your only real mainstream choices are C, C++ and Rust, since you can't have a language runtime without a filesystem.

But yeah, it's neither the case that Rust is overwhelmingly popular for that (C/C++ do stick around still), nor is it the only discipline where Rust shines.