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In celebration of 10 years of Rust another edition of Simplified Embedded Rust has been released!

This edition was created based on popular demand for a self contained resource and is a curation of all the STM32 blog posts. This edition covers a wide range of topics including; HAL development, PAC development, Driver development, Embassy, and FFI.

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Issue Highlights

🦀 10 Years of Stable Rust!
📀 Rust 1.87.0 is out
⛑️ RedHat partners with SiFive
⌨️ Microsoft Open Sources a Rust-based TUI
💰️ Bounty for Optimizing Rust Code
📚️ Free Edge Security eBook from Mouser + NXP
🚗 Arene Platform Debuts in the Toyota RAV4

 

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News & Article Roundup

A curation of embedded Rust-related news, articles, and posts

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Rust on Embedded: Join the Elektor Academy Pro Conference on 16 July

• Gama is turning Five

• Release 0.29.0 · probe-rs

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Microsoft Open Sources “Edit”, a CLI/TUI Text Editor ⭐️

• Announcing Rust 1.87.0 and ten years of Rust! ⭐️

• Makepad 1.0: Rust UI Framework

• Rust turns 10: baby steps

• Rust Celebrates 10 Years Since Version 1.0

• 10 years of stable rust an infrastructure story

• Rust turns 10: How a broken elevator changed software forever

• IBM Open SDK for Rust on AIX

• Rust Instructor Role at Columbia University

• 47-Year-Old 'Apple Pascal' Resurrection in Rust

• $20K Bounty Offered for Optimizing Rust Code in Rav1d AV1 Decoder ⭐️

• Oxidize Conference Tickets on Sale

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Arene Debuts in Toyota's All-New RAV4 ⭐️

• Renesas partners with Indian govt on semiconductors

• Raspberry Pi Connect is out of beta: simple remote access, now even better

• Renesas Debuts New Group in Popular RA0 Series

• Arm introduces new product naming architecture for infrastructure, PC, mobile, automotive, and IoT

• TinyML in a Parallel Universe

• "Currently Undocumented" Raspberry Pi Feature for Secure A/B Updates

• An LLM for the Raspberry Pi

• German government approves funding for Infineon chip plant

• Raspberry Pi OS Update Finalizes Bookworm-Based Release Ahead of Debian Trixie

• Arduino's New Rileva ME Opta Bundle Targets Machine Learning-Backed Predictive Maintenance

• Infineon Launches the PSOC™ 4100T Plus Multi-Sense-Enabled MCU

• NXP Promises Double the Performance for Autonomous Vehicles with Its New S32R47 Radar Processor

• SiFive Collaborates with Red Hat to Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux for RISC-V

• Science Journal App Heads from Google to Arduino

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• Rust vs. Java: A Comparison for Android Development

• Python Hits New High While Rust Stalls

• "Rust is so good you can get paid $20k to make it as fast as C"

• Lessons from Mixing Rust and Java: Fast, Safe, and Practical

• How I Leveraged C Learning to Understand Rust Better

• C++ in 2025: How the Language Is Adapting to a Shifting Tech Landscape

• Why Rust’s Ecosystem is a Game-Changer for Developers

• 'Who Needs Rust's Borrow-Checking Compiler Nanny? C++ Devs Aren't Helpless'

Hardware 🛠️

• M5Stack Launches the Tablet-Like Tab5 w/ the ESP32-P4

• LILYGO's New T-Embed SI4732

• Rutronik Adapter Board RAB7 Sensor Fusion Arduino shield

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Neural Network in Rust on MNIST dataset from scratch

• Rust for IoT: Building an ESP32 Weather Sensor with MQTT, TLS, and OTA Updates

• From Rust to AVR assembly: Dissecting a minimal blinky program

• How to use the Default Trait in Rust

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Flattening Rust’s learning curve

• Sharp Edges In The Rust Standard Library

• DevOps in Embedded Software? Let’s Be Honest: It Doesn’t Really Exist

• A collection of open source tools to summarize the news using Rust.

• discrete_pid 0.1.0: A PID controller for Rust

• Is Rust the Future of Programming?

• How to Fix Rust Compilation Error When Reading Tokens from File

• TuEmb/uds-client-rs: UDS client in Rust

• A new challenge (or opportunity) for Embedded Systems Engineers: Edge AI

• Lock-Free Rust: How to Build a Rollercoaster While It's on Fire

• iceoryx2 v0.6.0 is out: high-performance, cross-language inter-process communication that just works (C, C++, Rust - and soon Python)

• A Rust Documentation Ecosystem Review

• Simple & type-safe localization in Rust

• Interesting rust nightly features

• ANN optics 0.1.0 — a no-bullshit, no_std, dependency-free optics library for Rust

• Building Embedded Systems that Survive the Edge

• Stable Magisk 29 developed on RUST

• Forging the Future: My Ten-Year Journey Growing with Rust

• Scanner – The Team Accelerating Log Analysis with Rust

General Embedded 📟️

• Mouser and NXP Share Insights on Security Risk and Regulatory Compliance at the Edge in New eBook ⭐️

• Introduction to Serial Framing Formats

• Introducing Embedded Wizard Connect for Figma

• Ocre: A Tiny Open-Source Container Runtime for Embedded Systems

• Run Oracle Database 19c on Raspberry Pi 5

• Renesas Debuts New Group in Popular RA0 Series with Best-in-Class Power Consumption and Extended Temperature Range

• Safe updates using RAUC on Raspberry Pi 5

• Root Commit releases free training materials on OpenEmbedded and Yocto using the BeaglePlay SBC

• Machine learning based adaptive traffic prediction and control using edge impulse platform

• E-Trojans: Ransomware, Tracking, DoS, and Data Leaks on Battery-powered Embedded Systems

• Programming Myths We Desperately Need to Retire

• Low-Level Diagnostics, Fault Management in Embedded Systems: Design, Implementation, Lessons Learned

• Implement Secure Boot and Filesystem Encryption in Embedded Systems

• Speed Up Arduino with Clever Coding

• The Bugs in Your Bootloaders: Embedded Device Secure Boot Fails and How to Fix Them

• Tiny Machine Learning and On-Device Inference: A Survey of Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫

🏫 Rust for System Programmers

Noteworthy Book 📚️

📕 Async Rust

Noteworthy Newsletter 📰

📰 tl;dr sec - Keep up with Cybersecurity in 7 min/week

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Updates, Events, & Announcements

Updates & announcements from the community

Notable Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨

• rt v0.17.0

• probe-rs v0.29.0

• lunasoc-hal v0.2.0

• espup v0.15.1

• stm32-hal2 v1.9.3

• embedded-devices v0.9.13

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• Open Hardware Summit - May 30 & 31st, 2025, Edinburgh, Scotland

• Rust Summit -- Call For Proposals Open - June 7, 2025, Belgrade, Serbia

• Rust Forge - Call For Sponsors Open - August 2025, Wellington, New Zealand

• RustConf - September 2-5, 2025, Seattle, USA

• Oxidize - September 16-18, 2025, Berlin, Germany

• NDC Techtown - Call for Papers Open - September 22-25, Kongsberg, Norway

• EuroRust - October 9-10, 2025, Paris, France

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Jobs & Adoption

Keeping track of companies involved with embedded Rust

The Embedded Rust Adoption Tracker 🧭

The number of entities that believe in a future involving Rust in embedded is continuously growing. Any new additions will be mentioned here. Meanwhile, click here to access the full list of entities known to adopt/use embedded Rust.

Jobs Postings 🏭

Contrary to common belief, many embedded job posts nowadays prefer some knowledge of Rust. Additionally, there is a good amount that requires Rust. The list captures some of the interesting opportunities out there but is not comprehensive by any means. Listings that appear in the newsletter will remain as long as they’re posted/open online.

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Europe-Based Jobs 🌍️

• 🦀 Senior Software Engineer & Staff Software Engineer - Veecle, Berlin, Germany

• 🦀 Embedded Systems Engineering Intern - Gama, Paris, France

• 🦀 Firmware Engineer - IoT Biodiversity Sensors - Hula, Munich, Germany

• 🦀 Embedded Rust (Medical) - Freelance, Munich, Germany

• 🦀 Rust Developer (Junior to Senior) - wallPen, Wissen, Germany

• 🦀 Rust Developer/Promoter - Collabora, Remote

• 🦀 Rust Engineering Lead - Linux and Open Source - Canonical, Global, Hybrid

• 🦀 Doctoral Thesis: Functional Software Generation - Infineon, Munich, Germany

North America-Based Jobs 🌎️

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer (Bare Metal), Intelligence Systems - Anduril, Reston, VA

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer - Rust - Viasat, Carlsbad, CA & Marlborough. MA

• 🦀 Staff Engineer, Systems Embedded Design Engineering - Analog Devices, Boston, MA

• 🦀 QNX Senior Systems Software Developer (Rust Developer) - QNX, Ottawa, Ontario

• 🦀 Rust Software Engineer, Vehicle Simulation - Tesla, Palo Alto, CA

• 🦀 Open Source Robotics Engineer - rerun.io, Remote

• 🦀 Sr. Embedded Software Engineer, Customer Hardware (Starlink) - SpaceX, Bastrop, TX

• 🦀 Satellite Flight Software Engineer (Rust), Senior - Lynk, Falls Church, VA

• 🦀 Rust Engineering Lead - Linux and Open Source - Canonical, Global, Hybrid

• 🦀 Various Rust-Oriented Positions - MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA

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