I'm excited about the potential for #Rust in embedded automotive programming... But they really should've chosen a different language name for marketing reasons alone. ;)
@mtomczak Does your insurance cover damage caused by Rust?😂
@colinsmatt11 @nicemicro @mtomczak Automobiles have had electric programming for over a century.
@colinsmatt11 @nicemicro @mtomczak Yes.
Admittedly, the switch count has historically been pretty low...
@colinsmatt11 @nicemicro @urusan Modern cars have at least one main computer and often multiple computing systems networked together.
True story: I bought a Ford recently and about a year into owning it the engine went absolutely bonkers. Tried to rattle itself apart. I took it into the shop and they fixed it for free because it turns out that the problem was a software bug that they had put out a recall for---there was a software regulator that makes micro adjustments to the angle of the camshaft to maximize efficiency, and when certain bad luck criteria occurred it calculated the wrong angle and put the cam wildly out of phase, causing the engine to fight itself.
So yep, software glitch wrecked my engine.
