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Cringe. Not everything needs to be offloaded to someone else's computer.
And frankly, why would I pay some sort of fee (which they will eventually charge, even if they don't right now) for the "privilege" of having
rustc
fight for execution time on a vCPU somewhere in California?Every day that passes I lean further towards pursuing a career in embedded.
It’s s toss-up as to whether they start to charge for it, or whether they ditch it after a couple of years, like they have done with so many other side-projects.