N00b hello from Denver, CO US

I was about to post something nice, but it had too many links for a new user. So I thought I'd start here. Hope I'm not breaking any rules and posting in the correct location!

I've been coding for 40-some years, dear old dad provided an account on a PDP 11/70 running RSTS instead of buying an Apple II. Most recent two languages are Go and Scala in reverse sequential order, Go for Kubernetes and Scala for thinking better about enterprise projects. I also enjoy embedded and would like to have a better language for ESP-32 development. Was recently introduced to WebASM. Rust seems like a great way to bring all these interests together with a single skill set. So here I am!

I'm in Denver metro (Tech Center) if anyone is interested in crossing paths as well. Very interested in any kind of meetups.

Will post the other topic once I can say goodbye to n00b status... DMs are open as well.

Thanks!

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Welcome!

A suggestion: since you are interested in both embedded and web programming, you may benefit from getting into no_std coding sooner rather than later. This doesn't necessarily mean “bare metal” programming; rather, it can mean just writing library crates that do not have any inherent dependencies on IO or any other operating system facilities, and marking those crates with #[no_std]. A portable no_std library can be used to run the exact same algorithm everywhere.

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That's really cool, thanks for sharing!