# hackndev/zinc

The bare metal stack for rust

Repository: https://github.com/hackndev/zinc
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/zinc
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2019-07-06T08:32:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4516, "days_push": 2615, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1003, forks 99 (observed 2026-09-03T02:15:12.557667+00:00)

## What it is
Zinc is an experimental bare-metal stack for Rust targeting ARM microcontrollers, aiming to provide an RTOS-like foundation written entirely in safe Rust with a compile-time-verified hardware configuration DSL (Platform Tree). It supports NXP LPC, Freescale K20, and ST STM32 processor families.

## Use cases
- write bare-metal ARM firmware in Rust
- embedded development without C code
- verify hardware configuration at compile time
- build a minimal RTOS-like stack in Rust
- experiment with Rust safety features on microcontrollers

## When to choose
- studying historical approaches to safe embedded Rust
- researching compile-time hardware verification ideas

## When to avoid
- starting a new embedded Rust project today
- needing maintained tooling or broad hardware support
- requiring stable Rust toolchains

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: abandoned
- function: embedded, concurrency, build-tool
- domain: embedded-systems, programming-languages, hardware
- platform: embedded, rust
- tags: bare-metal, rtos, arm, microcontroller, rust-embedded, platform-tree, cmsis, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- hackndev/zinc (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:12.557667+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:13:51.695494+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hackndev/zinc (fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:12.557667+00:00, sha 526c86e367a3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.