It’s just over ten years old, but the Rust programming language has already reached position 17 in the TIOBE Programming Community index [1]. It’s moved 194 places in that time to rank alongside R, Ruby, Delphi, Scratch, and MATLAB. Not only that, but Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, accepted proposals to allow code written in Rust to be used in the kernel – something C++ has tried and failed to achieve for years. It also has a growing fan base among embedded systems developers, something that Espressif has decided to leap on.