MobiSys 2025 Digest
12 papers selected. Hopter: a Safe, Robust, and Responsive Embedded Operating System Zhiyao Ma, Guojun Chen, Zhuo Chen 0011, Lin Zhong 0001 TL;DR — Hopter is a new embedded OS that enforces memory safety and real-time responsiveness through a Rust-based task model with cooperative and preemptive scheduling co-designed from the ground up. Why notable — Building a ground-up safe embedded OS is a long-standing challenge; Hopter addresses it without sacrificing the determinism that IoT and robotics workloads demand, offering a credible alternative to unsafe C-based RTOSes. ...