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Issue Highlights

💪 ARM Upgrades its Rust Foundation Membership
🔄 Will Rust Replace C?
🚁 Bitcraze Adopting Rust
💬 Kernighan Comments on Rust
🧠 LWMalloc is a Lightweight Memory Allocator
👾 Navigating Mars with Rust
🎸 Tuitar is a Rust-based Guitar Training Hardware
🪟 Microsoft on Rust in Windows Drivers
🧪 Rust Innovation Lab Announced
👁️ Rust Type-system Visual Guide
 

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Slint 1.13 Released with Live-Preview for Rust and C++

• Towards the Rust Crazyflie Lib ⭐️

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• DARPA TRACTOR program: C to Rust conversion

• Welcoming the Rust Innovation Lab ⭐️

• Faster linking times with 1.90.0 stable on Linux using the LLD linker

• Rust compiler performance survey 2025 results

• Crossing the streams: Project + Foundation

• Leadership Council update — September 2025

• Program management update — August 2025

• Rust Foundation Announces Arm as a Platinum Member

• PgDog adds support for Rust plugins

• gccrs August 2025 Monthly report

• New APT37 Attacking Windows Machines With New Rust and Python Based Malware

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Qwen3 30B A3B Hits 13 token/s on 4xRaspberry Pi 5

• Infineon Expands AURIX TC4x Ecosystem with New Software Portfolio for Automotive Safety and Efficiency

• LWMalloc is a lightweight dynamic memory allocator for embedded systems ⭐️

• 30 years later, Doom returns to SNES with Raspberry Pi RP2350 muscle

• No wearables needed: researchers use WiFi and Raspberry Pi to measure your heart rate

• Enabling Earth Observation: TI's Role in ISRO-NASA's NISAR Satellite

• iMotion taps Renesas R-Car technology

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS ⭐️

• Exploring ada spark rust in embedded programming

• Rust Embedded Community Roundtable: Will Rust Replace C? ⭐️

• Why ML Needs a New Programming Language

• Why We Choose Rust for Modern Systems

• The repercussions of missing an Ampersand in C++ and Rust

• Is Rust a Hacker News Bubble?

Hardware 🛠️

• Seeed Studio Launches the reTerminal E ePaper Smart Display Family

• Raspberry Pi Launches a 1TB SSD

• tuitar: A portable guitar training tool ⭐️

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Embedded Rust Workshop

• A Rust reimplementation of PicoDVI with the Raspberry Pi RP2350

• Building a Brainfuck Interprer in Rust

• Towards Rust in Windows Drivers ⭐️

• Sharing a mutable reference between Rust and Python

• Resizing images in Rust, now with EXIF orientation support

• Adding #[derive(From)] to Rust

• Using Ergot as a sink for the log crate on embedded devices

• Ergot and egui: Streaming IMU data in Rust over USB

• How to log structured JSON in Rust

• Beyond arcmutex wrestling bigger rust monsters aroh sunday bygmf

• Handling Project Secrets

• Configuring System Clocks and Performance

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Rust Project Structure and Best Practices for Clean, Scalable Code

• Ratatui Pi

• Microsoft’s Rust Bet: From Blue Screens to Safer Code

• Why Your Rust Adoption Will Probably Fail (And How To Beat the Odds)

• Generative Testing Inline Assembly in Rust

• Faster Rust builds on Mac

• Debugging Rustler on Illumos

• Asynchronous Rust

• Secure Rust development with GitLab

• I Built a Deep Learning Framework in Rust from Scratch. Here’s How It Works.

• I've Seen the Future of UI Development. It's Insane, Written in Rust, and Rendered by an AI.

• Why Rust Is Gaining Ground in Zero-Trust Systems: From Software to Hardware/Software Co-Assurance

• Opening Portals With Rust

• Rust macros for scenario tests

• hotpath - A simple Rust profiler that shows exactly where your code spends time

• A clickable visual guide to the Rust type system ⭐️

• Rust Data Structures - Red-Black Tree

• Story of Rust's networking with hyper

• Feedback on Rust Programming Language / std

• (Kernel) Task Switching in Rust

• From Pandas to Polars: Rust’s DataFrame Library

• Navigating Mars with Rust: Helping the Rover See In Computer Vision ⭐️

• The Hidden Rules Behind Rust Functions & Closures

General Embedded 📟️

• Repurpose gadgets as Arduino-ready modules

• S-CORE vs AUTOSAR: Open Source as an Alternative to Standards?

• Bringing Data-Centric AI to the Edge

• Embedded Gen AI: Smarter Predictive Maintenance Apps for Manufacturing

• Speech Command Recognition Using LogNNet Reservoir Computing for Embedded Systems

• Neuro PlayGround Lite

• Quantum-Safe Cryptography in Embedded Systems

• Wow@Home Turns a Low-Cost SDR and a Raspberry Pi 5 Into a Radio Telescope for Alien-Spotting

• How Zephyr Shaped My Journey as a Trainee in Embedded Software Developer

• Raspberry Pi System Monitor

• Real-Time Performance Benchmarking of TinyML Models in Embedded Systems

• Enhancing Embedded Devices with Firmware Updates

• The Real Cost of Delivering Embedded Systems Late

• Machine Learning on Microcontrollers; Tiny, Useful and Fun

• MisraStdC: Generic, Type-Safe C Programming for MISRA-Compliant Embedded Systems

• Bare Metal STM32: the Various Real Time Clock Flavors

• How to Flash a Pre-Loaded Filesystem During Production

• 2D to 3D Conversion: Synthetic Asset Generation with Hunyuan-3D and Blender for Edge AI Datasets

• How the TI-99/4A Home Computer Worked

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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 🚨

• esp-wifi-sys v0.8.0

• stm32f1-hal v0.2.1

• riscv-semihosting v0.2.1

• riscv-rt v0.16.0

• stm32f1xx-halv0.11.0

• zerocopy v0.8.27

• stm32-hal2 v2.1.4

• embassy-executor v0.9.1

• ravedude v0.2.1

• postcard-rpc v0.11.15

• embedded-testv0.6.2

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

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

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

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

• Espressif DevCon 2025 - 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 🌍️

• 🦀 Middle/Senior Rust Developer with C experience (IoT) - Sigma Software, Mutliple Locations, Europe

• 🦀 Software Development Engineer - Embedded Development - Amazon, London, Cambridge, UK

• 🦀 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 🌎️

• 🦀 Sr. Rust Developer, Systems Engineering - Tenstorrent, Portland, US & Toronto, CA

• 🦀 Staff Software Engineer - OTA - Rivian-VW - Palo Alto, CA, Vancouver, Toronto, Canada

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

• 🦀 Software Engineer, Platform - Impulse, San Fransisco, CA

• 🦀 Rust Embedded Software Engineer - Geologics, Taunton, MA

• 🦀 Embedded Firmware Engineer, Embedded Firmware Developer, and Embedded Rust/C++ Firmware Developer - Chemelex, Edmonton, Canada

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

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

• 🦀 Firmware Engineer - Mach Industries, Huntington Beach, CA

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

• 🦀 Rust Software Engineer - K2Space, Los Angeles, CA

• 🦀 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

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

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