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Issue Highlights

⏪️ Rust Foundation Review of 2025
🧑‍💻 Rue is a Language Built with Rust & AI
♾️ Arduino Updates Its Open Source Ecosystem
🤖 NXP Announces AI Development Tools
📢 Espressif Announces New Devices & Tri-Band WiFi

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Fjall 3.0 Released

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Rust Foundation 2025 in Review ⭐️

• Brickstorm analysis update with new Rust-based variants

• gccrs December 2025 Monthly report

• AI-built Rue language pairs Rust memory safety with ease of use ⭐️

• Project goals update — December 2025

• What does it take to ship Rust in safety-critical?

• This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.93

• What is maintenance, anyway?

• Infrastructure Team 2025 Q4 Recap and Q1 2026 Plan

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• NXP Ushers Agentic AI to the Edge with New AI Development Tools ⭐️

• A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time

• GCC 16 Integrates Picolibc for Efficient Embedded Systems Development

• Raspberry Pi and mini PC home lab prices hit parity as DRAM costs skyrocket

• 2026 Tech Predictions

• New Espressif Microcontrollers: ESP32-E22 and ESP32-H21 ⭐️

• NXP Introduces A Central Compute Platform for Smart Vehicles

• Morse Micro Announces General Availability of HaLowLink 2

• Hubble Network Collaborates With Texas Instruments on Bluetooth Connectivity 

• Celebrating a Decade of Zephyr—and the Journey Ahead

• Infineon, HL Klemove Partner on SDVs

• Arduino Open-Source Ecosystem Gets a Fresh GitHub Push ⭐️

• Explore the latest: Arduino’s growing open source ecosystem

• Infineon and HL Klemove partner on SDV technology

• Infineon Introduces the Wi-Fi 7 IoT 20 MHz tri-radio Device Optimized for IoT

• Bring the World’s Largest Watch Face Catalog to Your RTOS Smartwatch

• SRC Awarded AF Contract to Develop Next-Gen Embedded Computing Capabilities

Comparisons with Other Languages 🔍️

• Rust Trait Runtime Polymorphism in C++

• Rust's Downfall: From Rising Star to Rejected by Major Projects

• 6.5 GB/S JSON Parsing in Mojo – Beating Rust and C++ on Apple Silicon

• Rust (and Haskell) Win!

• How long until Rust overtakes C and C++?

Hardware 🛠️

• Aiden Chostner's Pico2DVI Is a Do-It-Yourself Graphics Card Powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2350

• Seeed Studio's ePaper Kits Go Big with a 13.3" E Ink Spectra 6 Six-Color Panel

• Quectel SRG091X and SRG093X NXP i.MX 9 industrial AIoT modules

• $1 ESP32 Dev Board with Screen

• Pikoo Shrinks the Raspberry Pi Pico Without Sacrificing GPIO

• WeAct CAN485

• Looking at a Real Fake Raspberry Pi RP2040 Board

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Building an ML Library from Scratch

• Writing an eigenvalue solver in Rust for WebAssembly

• Fast and Safe Image Decoding in Rust

• ere: Compiling Regular Expressions at Build-Time

• How to Build a Local-First CLI Financial Tracker with Rust

• Interactive Newton's Cradle

• Dev Containers: Rust Quick Start

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Favorite Rust Crates of 2025

• Rust At Scale: Scaleway's Big Bet To Become THE European Hyperscaler

• Octopii - Turn any Rust struct into a replicated, fault-tolerant cluster

• Rust Lifetimes explained like you are 12

• AI Engineers are Openly Choosing Rust Over Everything Else

• 1160 PRs to improve Rust in 2025

• Rust in Robotics and Computer Vision: The New Frontier

• Comprehensive Testing of Embedded Software

• Rust's WASI Targets: What's Changing?

• Omnisor – High-Level Rust SSH Client for Network Devices 🦀

• How Safe is the Rust Ecosystem? A Deep Dive into crates.io

• Rust in Production: How Radar replaced Elasticsearch/MongoDB with a single Rust service

• Rust slow to compile? Here’s how to speed it up

• IBM Quantum: Rust is Real, but Quantum Advantage is Not (Yet)

• Embedded Rust in Production - Ulf Lilleengen - NDC TechTown 2025

• Extending MicroPython with Rust: Two Worlds Collide - Jan Matějek - NDC TechTown 2025

• Deploy to Raspberry Pi in One Command: Building a Rust-based Deployment Tool

• Rust Macros System

General Embedded 📟️

• Agentic Pipelines in Embedded Software Engineering: Emerging Practices and Challenges

• WARD: Efficient Memory Protection for WebAssembly on Tiny Embedded Systems

• Farewell to Portable Assembly: I've Been Running Swift on MCUs for Seven Years

• Building a virtio-serial FPGA device: Writing the RISC-V firmware

• Hidden costs for inference with deep network on embedded system devices

• 2026 Embedded Systems Trends

• Practical AI Learning with Raspberry Pi : Neural XOR

• From experiment to production, AI settles into embedded software development

• Master Embedded SystemsThe Modern Way

• A UI-Focused Display Library For The ESP32

• A Review of Embedded Software Architectures for Multi-Sensor Wearable Devices

• Arduino TFT Simulator for Desktop Testing

• RT-Spark STM32 IoT-Based Real-Time Wearable Activity Tracker

• Face Expression Recognition Robot with Arduino UNO Q | DigiKey

• ESP32 WiFi Security Explained for Beginners

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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 v0.20.0

• semihosting v0.1.24

• stm32f1-hal v0.12.3

• riscv-rt v0.17.1

• edge-nal-embassy v0.8.1

• embassy-net v0.8.0

• embassy-stm32 v0.5.0

• edge-nal v0.6.0

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 🌍️

• 🦀 (New) Systems Software Engineer (Rust) - ai-coustics, Berlin, Germany

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

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

North America-Based Jobs 🌎️

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

• 🦀 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

• 🦀 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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