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Issue Highlights

🦀 Rust 1.91 Released
📢 esp-hal 1.0.0 Announced
🍓 Pico VSCode extension now supports Rust
🐧 apt Package Manager to require Rust soon
💰️ Rust Foundation Announces Maintainer Fund

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• esp-hal 1.0.0 release announcement ⭐️

• Develop embedded firmware for Pico using Rust or Zephyr with pico-vscode ⭐️

• probe-rs 0.30.0 release

• TrustInSoft Extends Formal Verification to Rust and Real-Time Systems

• Ferrocene 25.08.0 now available

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Announcing the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund ⭐️

• Announcing Rust 1.91.0 ⭐️

• Announcing seven new members of the compiler team

• Debian's APT Will Soon Begin Requiring Rust ⭐️

• Ubuntu Will Use Rust For Dozens of Core Linux Utilities

• Hard Rust requirements from May onward

• Rust 1.91 promotes Windows on Arm64 to Tier 1 target

• Announcing the rust foundation maintainers fund

• Project goals for 2025H2

• Burn 0.19.0 Release: Quantization, Distributed Training, and LLVM Back End

• OpenTelemetry Adoption Update: Rust, Prometheus and Other Speed Bumps

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• RFC: Collecting Community Input on Qualification of LLVM Tools & Libraries

• Announcing the Edge Impulse Zephyr Module

• NXP Accelerates Edge AI with Kinara Acquisition

• NVIDIA Open Sources Aerial Software to Accelerate AI-Native 6G

• SOAFEE Roundtable Introduces Blueprints for Automotive Innovation

• ARM Education announces “AI at the Edge on Arm“ course

• NXP Rolls Out AI-Enabled Applications Processor Targeting Automotive

• Alif Semiconductor ’s releases framework extension for embedded systems

• OpenBMC ported to Zephyr and other news

• Grinn SBC shortens go-to-market for sophisticated AI-ready embedded systems

• NXP Intros Battery Management Tech Aims To Boost Performance

• Polyn delivers silicon-implementation of its NASP chip

• Collaborative Learning on the Edge

Comparisons with Other Languages 🔍️

• A Case Study in Rewriting a Critical Service in Rust

• Cloudflare Raves About Performance Gains After Rust Rewrite

• Automatically Translating C to Rust

• What’s the Go language really good for?

Hardware 🛠️

• ESP32JTAG – An open-source wireless JTAG and logic analyzer

• State of Embedded (SBCs): Q4 2025 Overview

• The Arduino Uno Q is a weird hybrid SBC

• HackBEE is a Raspberry Pi RP2350 USB-C dongle for developers

• The Arduino Uno Q: Hands On

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• impl Rust for ESP32: Ratatui on ESP32

• Async Rust explained without Tokio or Smol

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Building Up And Sanding Down

• Turn ESP32 devices into through-wall motion sensors

• SafeFFI: Efficient Sanitization at the Boundary Between Safe and Unsafe Code in Rust and Mixed-Language Applications

• Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust

• Jack Huey, Niko Matsakis Interview, Rust Vision Doc Team

• Rust Hobby OS projects worth exploring

• Cross-platform applications with Rust 1: Durable and flexible

• SAFEXPLAIN: Building Trustworthy AI for Critical Embedded Systems

• Building cargo-sane: A Better Way to Manage Rust Dependencies

• The state of the Rust dependency ecosystem

• Recent Rust Changes

• Building a Coding Agent in Rust: Implementing Chat Feature

• Linking and shrinking Rust static libraries: a tale of fire

• Pixi: Modern package management for Robotics

• Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust

•  TECS/Rust-OE: Optimizing Exclusive Control in Rust-based Component Systems for Embedded Devices

• Complex, AI-Enabled Small Processors and Cybersecurity Will Dominate Embedded System Designs Going Forward

• deepSURF: Detecting Memory Safety Vulnerabilities in Rust Through Fuzzing LLM-Augmented Harnesses

• The Rust Revolution in Engineering Systems: Real-World Examples from the Lab to the Factory Floor

• HORUS: Production-grade robotics framework achieving sub-microsecond IPC with lock-free shared memory

• A hard rain's a-gonna fall: decoding JSON in Rust

General Embedded 📟️

• Debugging Embedded Graphics with Wokwi and AI: Solving a Raylib Color Mapping on ESP32

• Integrating Embedded Swift and SDL3 on ESP32

• Deep Learning on Microcontrollers: The State of Embedded ML in 2025

• TinyML is the most impressive piece of software you can run on any ESP32

• Grayskull: A tiny computer vision library in C for embedded systems, etc.

• NanoHydra: Energy-Efficient Time-Series Classification at the Edge

• RockNet: Distributed Learning on Ultra-Low-Power Devices

• Deploying MobileNetV3 on NXP i.MX8MP: A Complete Edge AI Workflow for Handwritten Digit Recognition

• Insights and Challenges for Securing Microcontroller Systems

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫

🏫 Harvard CS249 Introduction to Machine Learning Systems

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 🚨

• burn v0.19.1

• stm32-hal2 v2.1.9

• embedded-test v0.7.0

• probe-rs v0.30.0

• esp-radio v0.17.0

• esp-hal v1.0.0

• ravedude v0.2.2

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• TokioConf 2026 - April 20th, 2026 - CFP Open, Deadline: December 8th, 2025 - Portland, Oregon, USA

• Rust Nation UK - February 18th & 19th, 2026 - London, UK

• Rust In Paris - March, 2026 (Projected) - Paris, France

• RustMeet - March, 2026 (Projected) - Gliwice, Poland

• Rustikon - 19 & 20 March, 2026 - Warsaw, Poland

• Rust Asia - March, 2026 (Projected) - Hong Kong

• RustWeek - May 18-23, 2026 - Utrecht, Netherlands

• RustForge - August, 2026 (Projected) - Wellington, New Zealand

• RustConf - September 8-11, 2026 - Montreal, Canada

• Oxidize - September 14-16, 2026 - Berlin, Germany

• EuroRust - October 14-17, 2026 - Barcelona, Spain

• RustLab - November, 2026 (Projected) - Florence, Italy

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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 🌍️

• 🦀 Internship: Firmware Rust Developer - NXP, Gratkorn, Austria

• 🦀 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 🌎️

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Staff Software Engineer, OTA, and Senior Software Engineer, OTA - Rivian/VW, Palo Alto, CA and Vancouver, Canada

• 🦀 Spacecraft Embedded Software Engineer (Rust) & Senior Spacecraft Embedded Software Engineer (Rust) - Spire, Multiple Locations, CA & USA

• 🦀 Rust Software Developer - Ford, Hybrid, Palo Alto, CA

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Developer (Hardware in the Loop) - Geotab, Oakville, ON

• 🦀 Software Engineer II - Embedded Cybersecurity - Collins Aerospace, Cedar Rapids, IA

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

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

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

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

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