Top all-time · #4221
Scott Mabin
Personal blog · mabez.dev/blog/postsprogramminghardware
Scott Mabin's personal blog at mabez.dev covers programming and hardware. Since 2019, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Rust on Espressif Chips”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Scott Mabin's blog for its posts on embedded Rust on ESP32 microcontrollers, including esp-rs tooling, SVD/PAC work, and Espressif's Rust support.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Rust on Espressif Chips6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-07-30
- Rust on Espressif chips – 2023 Roadmap2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-24
- Rust on the ESP32 (2019)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-10
- Rust on the ESP32 – SVD's, PAC's and USB Flashing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-23
- Espressif advances with Rust – 30-06-20232 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-30
- Rust on Espressif chips2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-26
- Rust on Espressif chips – 17-10-20222 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-17
- Mabez Rust on Espressif chips – Q4 update2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-25
What Hacker News says?
If you haven't yet, check out Scott Mabin's blog. He's working on ESP32 & Rust: https://mabez.dev/blog/posts/esp-rust-18-10-2021/
Comment linking /blog/posts/esp-rust-18-10-2021/
on “The Rust compiler has gotten faster again”Submitted Rust on Espressif chips as a story · 230 points
HN discussionEspressif (the makers of the hugely popular ESP32/ESP8266/... microcontrollers) hired an embedded Rust community member to work full time on Rust support for their chips: https://mabez.dev/blog/posts/esp-rust-espressif/
Comment linking /blog/posts/esp-rust-espressif/
on “This Year in Embedded Rust”Submitted Rust on Espressif chips – 15-07-2022 as a story · 186 points
HN discussionFollow up post https://mabez.dev/blog/posts/esp32-rust-svd-pac/
Comment linking /blog/posts/esp32-rust-svd-pac/
on “Rust on the ESP32 (2019)”Submitted Rust on the ESP32 (2019) as a story · 133 points
HN discussionI haven't done much with it yet, but I'm excited about the bare-metal (no_std) rust support for the esp32c3 (as opposed to some other variants that require a custom toolchain as I understand it). Lots of details at < https://mabez.dev/blog/posts/ >, and some examples of wifi on bare-metal at < https://github.com/esp-rs/esp-wifi >. I hope to eventually get it working with MQTT (there may be examples already, I haven'…
Comment linking /blog/posts/
on “ESP32-C3 Wireless Adventure: A Comprehensive Guide to IoT [pdf]”Submitted Rust on Espressif chips Q1 2022 as a story · 109 points
HN discussionThanks for mentioning it. I already tried using it a few months ago and brushed it off as still being a WIP, but it still didn't work when I tried again just a few days ago. Asking in the Matrix chat when first trying it sadly only got me a "works for me" from the developers. What Espressif is doing with their esp-idf and porting it to Rust is promising, but overall it still needs work. Using the toolchain to develo…
Comment linking /blog/posts/esp-rust-24-02-2023/
on “Switching from C++ to Rust”Submitted Mabez Rust on Espressif chips – Q4 update as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust on Espressif chips – 17-10-2022 as a story · 46 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust on Espressif chips – 2023 Roadmap as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust on Espressif Chips as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust on Espressif chips – 17-10-2022 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Espressif advances with Rust – 30-06-2023 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust on Espressif chips – 21-06-2024 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust on Espressif Chips as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust on the ESP32 and ESP8266 – Building an Ecosystem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust on the ESP32 – SVD's, PAC's and USB Flashing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust on Espressif chips – 24-01-2024 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust on Espressif chips – 28-04-2023 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust on Espressif Chips as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Espressif hires full-time employee to support Rust on ESP32 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust on Espressif Chips as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust on the ESP32 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust on Espressif chips – 29-09-2023 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust on Espressif chips – 30-06-2023 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust on Espressif chips – 10-01-2022 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust on Espressif Chips as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
