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Issue Highlights

◀️ Several Project Reviews of 2025
🚀 Shuttle.rs ceasing operations
🦀 Microsoft Ambitious Plans for Rust
🤝 Bosch - Espressif Collaboration
📢 Rustup beta call for testers
💼 New Job Postings

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Quote of the Issue

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Building ADAR with Rust: Key compilation milestone achieved

• Embedded Rust Education: A Look Forward to 2026

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Program management update — End of 2025

• December 2025 Project Director Update

• Rustup 1.29.0 beta: Call for Testing! ⭐️

• Shuttle Is Ceasing Operations ⭐️

• Microsoft sets 2030 target to replace C and C++ code with Rust ⭐️

• Cloudflare Open Sources tokio‑quiche, Promising Easier QUIC and HTTP/3 in Rust

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Introducing the latest Arduino App Lab updates and examples

• Renesas Advances SDVs with Multi-Domain SoC

• Bosch Sensortec and Espressif Sign Strategic Collaboration ⭐️

• Up Next for Arduino After Qualcomm Acquisition: High-Performance Computing

• NXP, Rimac Co-Develop Centralized Architecture for SDVs

Comparisons with Other Languages 🔍️

• What do people love about Rust?

• How AI and Rust are quietly dethroning C in Linux, and Windows

Hardware 🛠️

• HealthyPi 6 provides open-source biosignal acquisition for research and education

• Apollo510B

• Give Your Raspberry Pi 14 USB Ports

• SigCore UC: An Open-Source Universal I/O Controller for the Raspberry Pi

• Add Four Ethernet Ports to the Raspberry Pi 5

• ckchip RK628D-based HDMI-to-MIPI-CSI board

• Raspberry Pi Gets Desktop Form Factor

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Advent of Code on MCUs

• Working with Fixed-Point Numbers in Rust Using the fixed Crate

• Home Automation in 3MB: Building a Rust System for Raspberry Pi Zero

• Notes on debugging Rust microcontroller stack usage

• Improved debugging of a Rust program with GDB

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Compile-Time Resource Tracking in Rust: From Runtime Brackets to Type-Level Safety

• VeruSAGE: A Study of Agent-Based Verification for Rust Systems

• Burn: End of the Year Review and Burn Central Announcement

• Rust the Process

• That mockingbird won't sing: a mock API server in Rust

• Here’s Our Prediction for the Future of Desktop Linux in 2026

• Efficient Deep Learning Infrastructures for Embedded Computing Systems: A Comprehensive Survey and Future Envision

• What you missed about Rust in 2025

• LogosQ: A High-Performance and Type-Safe Quantum Computing Library in Rust

• Xous: A pure Rust rethink of the embedded operating system

• Radioscope: A device that turns Wi-Fi activity into sound

•  Hybrid-Transpiler – A tool to convert C++ to Rust and Go

• 4 months later: update on my journey toward the Rust compiler team

• Rust in Production Podcast: 2025 Holiday Special - Year in Review and 2026 Outlook 

• How I Used TPM for Key Encryption in Rust on Linux

• Introducing AI-SDK for Rust

• Why I'm a Rustacean

General Embedded 📟️

• Fuzix on a Raspberry Pi Pico

• Learn Edge AI on Unihiker K10

• Cryptographic Side-Channels on Embedded Devices

• ESP32 Internet Access in QEMU

• TinyML at the Edge: Deploying and Optimizing AI Workloads on Zephyr RTOS - Amandeep Singh, Welzin

• Zephyr vs FreeRTOS: How to Choose the Right RTOS for Your Embedded Project

• Efficient Deep Learning Infrastructures for Embedded Computing Systems: A Comprehensive Survey and Future Envision

• An Ode to FatFs

• Liberating ESP32 Bluetooth

• Xcc700: Self-hosting mini C compiler for ESP32 in 700 lines

• Determining Current Arm Cortex-M Security State with GDB

• From media centers to Kali Linux: How to dual-boot on Raspberry Pi

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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 🚨

• edge-net v0.13.0

• edge-nal-embassy v0.8.0

• edge-nal v0.6.0

• stm32f1-hal v0.10.0

• atsamd-hal v0.23.1

• semihosting v0.1.21

• portable-atomic v1.13.0

• riscv-rt v0.17.0

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

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

• Rust In Paris - March 27th, 2026 - CFP Open: Submission Link, Deadline: December 31st, 2025 - Paris, France

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

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

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

• TokioConf 2026 - April 20th, 2026 - Portland, Oregon, USA

• RustWeek - May 18-23, 2026 - CFP Open: Submission Link, Deadline: January 15th, 2026 - Utrecht, Netherlands

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

• RustConf - September 8-11, 2026 - CFP Open: Submission Link, Deadline: February 16th, 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 🌍️

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

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

North America-Based Jobs 🌎️

• 🦀 (New) Software Engineer, Flight Software - Heart Aerospace, Los Angeles, USA

• 🦀 (New) Rust Software Developer - PMES, Sr Specialist, RUST Software Developer, Sr. Specialist Software Engineer, Lead Rust Software Developer - LMES, &  Scientist, Software Engineer - Rust Expert - L3Harris, New Jersey & Virginia, USA

• 🦀 (New) Rust Embedded Engineer - Swarm Biotactics, San Diego, CA, USA

• 🦀 Embedded Systems Engineer - Oxide, Remote, USA

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer - Rivian/VW, Palo Alto, CA, and Vancouver, 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 Engineering Lead - Linux and Open Source - Canonical, Global, Hybrid

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