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Issue Highlights

📈 Rust at Scale in WhatsApp
🔐 MITRE Releases Embedded Systems Threat Matrix
🐧 Contingency Plan for Linus’s Replacement
📢 SeeedStudio announces Xiao with ESP32-C5
🛰️ Insights on Rust in Space
📀 New RISC-V Course Launch
💻️ You can now install gcc backend with rustup on Linux
🦀 Rust v1.93.0 is out
🪲 probe-rs v0.31.0 is out

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Table of Contents

1. News & Article Roundup 📰

2. Educational Resources 📚

3. Noteworthy Mentions ⭐️

4. Updates, Events, & Announcements 📢

5. Jobs & Adoption 💼

6. uFerris Project Updates 🦀

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News & Article Roundup

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

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Embedded Rust News 📰

• probe-rs v0.31.0 is out with more ESP support ⭐️

• Libertas IoT SDK Announced

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• crates.io: development update

• Rust's standard library on the GPU

• Job Application for JetBrains Rust Developer Advocate at JetBrains

• The Rust GCC backend can now be installed with rustup ⭐️

• Announcing Rust 1.93.0 ⭐️

• Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp ⭐️

• 2025 Rust Foundation Annual Report Project Director Update

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• AI and IoT innovations transforming embedded software development for smarter devices

• MITRE unveils Embedded Systems Threat Matrix

• The AI-tuned DRAM solutions for edge AI workloads

• The Linux kernel community finally has a contingency plan to replace Linus Torvalds ⭐️

• MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience on microcontrollers

Comparisons with Other Languages 🔍️

• Replacing Protobuf with Rust

• Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey

• How Rust does Async differently (and why it matters)

• Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month

• How Multicore CPUs Killed Object-Oriented Programming

• Rust vs JavaScript & TypeScript: performance, WebAssembly, and developer experience

Hardware 🛠️

• Seeed Studio's New Wi-Fi 6 XIAO ESP32-C5 ⭐️

• Raspberry Pi Flash Drive available now

• UUGear's Witty Pi 5 HAT+

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

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Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Intro to Embedded Rust - Part 1: What is Rust?

• Intro to Embedded Rust - Part 2: Blink & LED

• The System Manager and Startup Coordination

• The Complete Guide to Publishing Your First Rust Crate to crates.io

• Elegant and safe concurrency in Rust with async combinators

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Rust in the Real World: Building Anti-Trafficking Software

• OpenAI went ALL IN on this Rust framework

• SWD: You have options

• Flux, A Python-like language in Rust to solve ML orchestration overhead

• mmdr: A native Rust Mermaid renderer

• How it feels to write a GPKG library in 2026 (in Rust!)

• Rust In Production: How Gama Space Controls Satellites In Orbit With Rust ⭐️

• Tooling for Cubesat Space Protocol (CSP) ⭐️

• Rust with Milica Kostic

• How We Used eBPF + Rust to Observe AI Systems Without Instrumenting a Single Line of Code

• I hotreload Rust and so can you

• Parametric CAD in Rust

• Video tour of copper-rs, a Deterministic Robotics Runtime in Rust

General Embedded 📟️

• RISC-V Foundation Launches New Porting Software to RISC-V Course ⭐️

• Memory addressing and memory mapped io

• How Long It Actually Takes to Become Productive with a New Microcontroller

• TI-99/4A: Leaning More on the Firmware

• EmbedAgent: Benchmarking Large Language Models in Embedded System Development

• Arduino UNO Q: Dragonwing QRB2210 + STM32U585, Debian Linux, edge AI + robotics

• Modernization of Embedded Systems with Test-Driven Development

• TPM on Embedded Systems: Pitfalls and Caveats to Watch Out For

• EmbedAgent: Benchmarking Large Language Models in Embedded System Development

• STM32 vs ESP32 for Production IoT Projects

• Running a Local AI Model on Raspberry Pi (Lessons Learned)

• Building cyber-resilient embedded systems: Insights from industry leaders

• Zephyr on HiFi4: DSP Development, Simplified

• Using STM32 devices with Keil Studio for Visual Studio Code

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

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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

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Notable Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨

• embedded-sensors-hal-async v0.4.0

• embedded-sensors-hal v0.1.1

• mousefood v0.3.0

• zerocopy v0.8.35

• stm32f1-hal v0.14.0

• aarch32-rt v0.2.0

• probe-rs v0.31.0

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

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

• Rust In Paris - March 27th, 2026 - 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 - 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

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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 🌍️

• 🦀 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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