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Exciting indeed, as this is a high quality effort. What gets me most excited is the async work being done around Embassy, which has the potential to revolutionize bare-metal programming once it graduates to stable. The cool-aid:

- https://embassy.dev/

- https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/65/async-rust-vs-rtos-showdown

Yeah, async makes so much sense for embedded. Async is often billed as "for IO", but really that's only because IO requires waiting for an external hardware peripheral (the disk) to do something, leaving the CPU free to do other things in the meantime. And embedded is mostly dealing with (and often waiting for) external hardware peripherals!

I think they actually ended up hiring a couple folks (2-3?) from the open source project. Pretty awesome to see them supporting existing work!

FWIW I've very recently gotten https://github.com/ivmarkov/rust-esp32-std-demo (which is a pretty comprehensive demo) running on a TinyPICO (w/ESP32) and am looking forward to building out my own projects next.