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Issue Highlights

📢 Espressif DevCon 2025 Call for Speakers
🦺 CISA and NSA Chime in on the Memory Safe Conversation
🔐 Microsoft announces Rust-based RIFT
💰️ Nordic Acquires Memfault and Neuton
📢 RustForge and Oxidize Conference Schedules Announced
📱 Meta’s Transition from C to Rust on Mobile
♾️ A new AI Powered Arduino IDE

 

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Ferrocene 25.05.0 now available!

• Rust for PSP? Meet rust-psp – A Fresh SDK for Homebrew Dev

• Espressif DevCon2025 Call for Speakers Announced ⭐️

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• RustWeek 2025 Talks Published

• The Zed Debugger Is Here

• Oxidize Conference Schedule Announced ⭐️

• Rust Forge Conf 2025 Schedule Announced ⭐️

• Unveiling RIFT: Enhancing Rust malware analysis through pattern matching ⭐️

• CISA, FBI, NSA Urge Software Industry: Adopt Memory-Safe Languages to Drastically Cut Vulnerabilities ⭐️

• Announcing Rust 1.88.0

• May Project Goals Update

• Announcing the Clippy feature freeze

• Now accepting Project Goal proposals for 2025H2

• 2025 Leadership Council Survey

• Program management update — June 2025

• RustConf 2025 Registration is Open

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Nordic Semiconductor Acquires Memfault ⭐️

• Nordic Semiconductor accelerates edge AI leadership with acquisition of Neuton.AI ⭐️

• Embedr, an AI-First LLM-Powered Arduino Development Environment ⭐️

• Diamond Technologies Launches New Line of High-Performance Embedded Computing Modules

• IAR upscales embedded software dev workflows for Renesas MCU architectures

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• ‘rant’ Rust: The Safety Language That Still Isn’t Safe Enough

• I Switched from Flutter and Rust to Rust and Egui

• Rust vs Go vs TypeScript which backend language is for you

• 70 Years of Programming Language Takeovers: Past Giants, Current Kings, and Future Contenders

• Counter Service: How we rewrote it in Rust

• OpenAI is Ditching TypeScript to Rebuild Codex CLI with Rust

• Meet Mojo: The Language That Could Replace Python, C++, and CUDA

• C++ Encounters Of The Rusty Zig Kind

• Rust vs. C for Python Libraries: Evaluating Rust-Compatible Bindings Toolchains

• Zig and Rust in Production

• Rust: The Must-Adopt Language for Modern Software Development

Hardware 🛠️

• ESP32-S3 development board integrates SI4732 AM/FM radio receiver

• XIAO W5500 Ethernet Adapter: PoE-enabled ESP32-S3 device

• ESP32-Stick-PoE-A-Cam – An ESP32-S3 camera board with active PoE

• Virtium Embedded Artists Unveils the iMX8M Mini DX-M1, an NXP i.MX 8M Mini SOM with DEEPX NPU

• Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2 (RM2) is officially available for $4

• Olimex Unveils the RP2350pc, a Retro-Styled Single-Board Computer Powered by Raspberry Pi's RP2350B

• Nexus RP2350 LiPo board

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Rust in the Linux kernel: part 2

• Rust Drives a Linux USB Device

• Rust on an Arduino UNO R4 - Part 1

• Rust on Arduino Uno R4 - Part 2

• How to write Rust in the kernel: part 1

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Podcast: 1Password - Andrew Burkhart, Senior Rust Engineer

• A Newbie's First Contribution to (Rust for) Linux

• Rust × Burn Adventure — Part 6: Fashionably Late to GPU-Powered Visualization

• Zero-Cost Abstractions: What It Really Means in Rust

• On Error Handling in Rust

• First release of SerialGUI-rs — a cross-platform serial terminal with a GUI built in Rust

• Why We Chose Rust For Spin

• Cross-Compiling 10,000+ Rust CLI Crates Statically

• Why we chose Claude for the Arduino Cloud AI Assistant

• Super lightweight, fast AEC in Rust

• Coccinelle for Rust progress report

• Why Rust Is the Future of Embedded Systems

• Programming Language Switching Economics

• Exception handling in rustc_codegen_cranelift

• An inside look at Meta’s transition from C to Rust on mobile ⭐️

• MiniRust: A core language for specifying Rust

• Double Your Performance with One Line of Code? The Memory Superpower Every Rust Developer Should Know!

• Alternative Blanket Implementations for a Single Rust Trait

General Embedded 📟️

• How to Present Your Upskilling Journey to Land a Senior Embedded Role

• Signal Processing in Embedded Systems

• TinyGo Goes Multi-Core on the Raspberry Pi RP2040

• Graphical Programming IDE Software for Arduino, ESP32, STM32

• Revolutionizing Edge AI: Deploying Models with WebAssembly and WASI-NN

• Researchers Turn to Smart Orchestration and Task-Specific Models to Get the Most Out of TinyML

• From Tiny Machine Learning to Tiny Deep Learning: A Survey

• Zephyr’s Meteoric Rise and What It Means for the Future of Embedded

• Learn Embedded Systems Firmware Basics – A Handbook for Developers

• Embedded DevOps: A Survey on the Application of DevOps Practices in Embedded Software and Firmware Development

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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 🚨

• gd32f1x0-hal v0.10.2

• espflash v4.0.0

• atsamd-hal v0.22.2

• postcard v1.1.2

• rtic v2.2.0

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• Rust Forge - August 2025, Wellington, New Zealand

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

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

• NDC Techtown - September 22-25, Kongsberg, Norway

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

• Espressif DevCon 2025 - Call for Speakers Deadline July 31st - November 5-6, 2025

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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 🌍️

• 🦀 Staff Software Engineer - Veecle, Berlin, Germany

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

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

• 🦀 Rust Developer/Promoter - Collabora, Remote

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

North America-Based Jobs 🌎️

• 🦀 (New) Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Systems/Firmware, Project Starline - Google, Mountain View, CA

• 🦀 (New) Principal Embedded Systems Engineer – Avionics / GNC - Orb Aerospace, Lowell, MI

• 🦀 (New) Core Information Embedded Engineer - Caterpillar, Mossville, IL

• 🦀 (New) Rust Embedded Software Engineer 1, 2, 3, & 4 - General Dynamics, MA

• 🦀 (New) Embedded Systems Software Consultant (Rust / RTOS) - Seamgen, Remote

• 🦀 (New) Senior Embedded Engineer (In-Flight Perception), Embedded Software Engineer (Stratospheric Vehicles), Senior/Principal Embedded Software Engineer (Stratospheric Vehicles) - Mach Industries, Huntington Beach, CA

• 🦀 (New) Sr. Embedded Firmware Engineer (Rust and C) - Nanobiosym, Cambridge, MA

• 🦀 (New) Rust Senior Software Engineer, Rust Principal Software Engineer - Raytheon Technologies, El Segundo, CA

• 🦀 (New) Rust Software Engineer - K2Space, Los Angeles, CA

• 🦀 (New) Embedded Software Engineering Manager - Span, San Francisco, CA

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

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

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

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

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

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