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Issue Highlights

✍️ Microsoft Compiling Rust to C
🖼️ New Slint Version Released
🗒️ Rust Compiler Performance Survey Launched
🐭 Update on Ratatui for no-std
🏃 Embedded Swift Website Emerges

 

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Ratatui - Are We Embedded Yet? (#2) ⭐️

• Slint 1.12 Released ⭐️

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Hedge funds are replacing a programming language with Rust, but it's not C++

• New Rust Based InfoStealer Extracts Sensitive Data from Chromium-based Browsers

• Munal OS: experimental operating system fully written in Rust as an EFI binary

• Rust compiler performance survey 2025 ⭐️

• Rewriting SymCrypt in Rust to modernize Microsoft’s cryptographic library 

• June 2025 Leadership Council Update

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Inside Arm Zena CSS: The Compute Platform for AI-Defined Vehicles

• Help Shape the Future of Embedded Systems: Participate in the Embedded.com Reader Survey

• Infineon collaborates with Typhoon on real-time HIL platform

• Innatera Adds More Accelerators to Spiking Microcontroller

• LeafWiki now supports ARM64 – run your Markdown wiki on Raspberry Pi

• TI to invest $60B to manufacture foundational semiconductors in the U.S.

• Embedl raises €5.5 million to develop AI in embedded systems

• AdaCore and CodeSecure Merge to Form a Global Company Providing Embedded Software Security and Safety Solutions

• Zephyr RTOS Expands Ecosystem with Renesas and Wind River

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• Rust vs Go: Which one to choose in 2025

• Rewriting SymCrypt in Rust to modernize Microsoft’s cryptographic library

• C++ Pattern Matching: Should C++ Embrace Functional Programming Constructs?

Hardware 🛠️

• Arduino's UNO Shield Brings Single-Pair Ethernet and RS485 to the R4

• Micro Machines

• BUG: ethical hacking USB device with RP2040, ESP32-S3, or STM32 MCU

• Orange Pi R2S octa-core RISC-V router board

• Avalue ACP-PI – A Raspberry Pi-like industrial SBC family

• 5 RISC-V SBCs that are worth using instead of a Raspberry Pi

• NearLink WS63E board

• Edgeberry - Equip your Raspberry Pi for the IoT Edge

• $3.50 nanoCH57x RISC-V development board

• Hellbender On-Edge AI Stereo Camera

• ESP32 AI On The Edge Module

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• PSOC 6 Rust WiFi Demo: WiFi Connectivity on PSOC 6 Microcontrollers

• Learning WebAssembly and Rust Part 2

• How we wrap external C and C++ libraries in Rust

• Advance Types In Rust

• Build a Terminal-Based Music Player/Downloader with Rust and FFmpeg

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Rust For Foundational Software

• Compiling Rust to C

• 10 Years of Betting on Rust

• Rust for Kids

• Introduction to embedded development with Rust: Overview of the ecosystem

• Eurydice: compiles (a modest subset of) Rust to C (Microsoft research) ⭐️

• Four Tiers of IoT Hardware: What to Choose and When

• Revolutionizing AI/ML Deployment: The Power of WebAssembly

• EmbedAgent: Benchmarking Large Language Models in Embedded System Development

General Embedded 📟️

• Getting Started with RTOS: A Hands-On Guide for Beginners Using Cortex-M4

• AI Accelerators in Embedded Systems

• Create Embedded Software with Swift ⭐️

• Deploying Neural Networks on Microcontrollers with TinyML

• Why and How to Migrate from Bare Metal to Zephyr RTOS

• Optimizing Edge AI with Advanced Thermal Management in Embedded Systems

• Increasing Flexibility: Software Defined Hardware Interfaces on Heterogeneous SoCs with Zephyr

• The Qt Company Blog: Ensuring Safety in Embedded Systems for Micro-Mobility

• Supercon 2024: Jim Scarletta - Repurposing ESP32 Based Commercial Products

• The Ultimate Guide to Modern Embedded Firmware Development

• Real-Time YOLO at the Edge using the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+

• What I learned about Zephyr RTOS threads

• Whitepaper on NXP’s FRDM Platform for i.MX Applications Processors

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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 🚨

• device-driver v1.0.6

• zerocopy v0.8.26

• imxrt-hal v0.5.10

• stm32-hal2 v1.9.5

• rtic v2.1.3

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• 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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- Omar

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