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Issue Highlights

🔬 Probe.rs website updated
🧠 JetBrains Releases State of the Developer Ecosystem
📢 Embedded-hal last call for feedback
🎓️ Rust Foundation Launching Certification Program
🏎️ New ChatGPT Plugin for Rust
📡 Nordic Getting Involved with RISC-V
🦀 Rust 1.74.0 is out

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Embedded Rust News 📰

• Embedded-hal last call for feedback. The 1.0 release is currently planned for December 28th, after Rust 1.75 is released 🚨 

• Updated probe.rs website 🔥 

Rust Community News 🗞️ 🦀 

• Announcing Rust 1.74.0

• November 2023 Leadership Council Update

• Our Vision for the Rust Specification

• Rust in Linux: Where we are and where we're going next

• Lingua 1.6.0: The most accurate natural language detection library for Rust - Now with Python bindings

• JetBrains Releases the 2023 State of the Developer Ecosystem

• The Rust Foundation to Develop Training and Certification Program

• Introducing AccelerantGPT, a ChatGPT plugin adept at explaining Rust code and teaching you the language

• JetBrains Inviting Rust Developers to Join User Interviews

General Embedded News/Trends 📈 

• Tesla open sources all design and engineering of original Roadster

• Advantech Expands Line of Compact Fanless Embedded Systems

• ASUS IoT Tinker System 2 Excels As Network Analyzer Backbone

• Scientists use Raspberry Pi tech to protect NASA telescope data

• Nordic nRF7002 EK Adds Wi-Fi 6 Capability to IoT Prototypes as an Arduino Shield

• Espressif Partners with AWS for the ESP ZeroCode ExL, Combining Matter 1.2 and AWS IoT ExpressLink

• Arduino Solves Some Data Storage Headaches with New POSIXStorage and UnifiedStorage Libraries

• Seeed Studio Partners with Traxmate to Offer Seamless Asset Tracking Solutions

• Renesas Shares Processor Roadmap for Its Next-Gen Automotive SoCs and MCUs

• Infineon Pushes Machine Learning to the Edge With New MCU Family

• NXP Aims New Motor Control MCU at Software-Defined Vehicles

• Cadence Expands Tensilica IP Portfolio with Enhanced Intelligence and Edge AI

• Infineon extends line of radiation-hardened asynchronous static RAMs with embedded ECC for space and other extreme environment applications

• Announcing a better Arduino Cloud, together!

• Arm Extends Cortex-M Portfolio to Bring AI to the Smallest Endpoint Devices​

• Why Nordic is getting involved in RISC-V

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️ 

• I think C++ is still a desirable coding platform compared to Rust

• Crusty Rusty and the search for the fastest ML compute (Python vs Rust in Neural Networks)

• Go (Echo) vs Rust (Rocket): Hello world performance

• A Developer’s Dilemma: Navigating Rust and Python

• Rust and Node.js: Harmonizing Performance and Safety

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Edge IoT with Rust on ESP: MQTT Publisher

• Async Rust on ESP32: Embassy & Stepper

• Async Rust on ESP32: Controlling a stepper using HTTP

• Creating an OS using Rust: [Part-1] Creating “freestanding” executable 

• Implementing TCP in Rust

• Ultimate Rust Crash Course

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Code in Rust with RustRover, by Vitaly Bragilevsky - Rust Linz November 2023

• Rust for Embedded Systems: Current State, Challenges and Open Problems 🔥 

• Building and Deploying a Static Site Generator in Less Than an Hour (With Rust) 

• Embedded Systems Co-design for Object Recognition: A Synergistic Approach

• Learning Rust: System V AMD64 ABI

• Journey into Rust — A Cybersecurity Expert’s Tale Part 1 — Fundamentals

• Rust Concurrency Explained: A Beginner's Guide to Arc and Mutex

• Exploring Rust compiler options: GCC vs. LLVM

• A new hope for more secure defense systems? 🔥 

• Building Segmented Logs in Rust: From Theory to Production!

• I Got a Milk-V Duo (and It’s Running Rust)

• Microsoft Azure Boost is using Rust

• How Much RAM Do You Need to Run Rust?

General Embedded 📟️ 

• What Is the ESP32?

• Beginner Tutorial: How to Connect Raspberry Pi and BME280

• Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB

• Embedded Systems Roadmaps 🔥 

• Embedded System Design: Challenges of Hardware and Software Development

• Conquering the Arduino Certification: Journey to Becoming a Certified Professional

• Navigating Challenges to Achieve Arduino Certification: Key to Success in the IoT Era

• NXP Semiconductors S32G3 Vehicle Networking Reference Design

• ESP32 Web Bluetooth (BLE): Getting Started Guide

• The best Raspberry Pi alternatives

• Bare Metal Emulation on the Raspberry Pi – Commodore 64

• Visualizing Real-time Data With STMViewer 🔥 

• We tried to debug a microcontroller from our browser

• FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) on the ESP32 Development Board

• Embedded systems and IoT security (Translated from Finnish)

Rewrite it in Rust - Project Inspiration ✏️ 🦀 

• Raspberry Pi: Control Outputs Based on Time of the Day

Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨 

• rtic-monotonics v1.3.0

• stm32f4xx-hal v0.18.0

• svd2rust v0.30.3

• imxrt-iomuxc v0.2.4

• avr-device v0.5.3

• embassy-executor v0.3.3

• embassy-futures v0.1.1

• esp-idf-svc v0.47.3

• esp-idf-hal v0.42.5

• embedded-svc v0.26.4

• embedded-nal-async v0.7.0

• embedded-nal v0.8.0

• espup v0.9.0

Upcoming/New Learning Resources & Training 📚

• WhyRust? - KDAB, Online, December, 13th, 2023

• WhyRust? - KDAB, Online, January, 10th, 2024

• Introduction to Rust - KDAB/Ferrous Systems, Online, January, 29th, 2024

• Introduction to Rust - KDAB/Ferrous Systems, Online, February, 26th, 2024

• Embedded Rust - KDAB/Ferrous Systems, Online, March, 6th, 2024

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• Elektor Webinar: Dive into the Future of Matter and IoT with Elektor & Espressif - December 14th, 2023

• Open Hardware Summit Call for Talks and Proposals - Deadline December 17th, 2023

• Rust Nation UK - March 26th - 28th, 2024

• Embedded World - April 9th-11th, 2024, Nurnberg, Germany

• Embedded Open Source Summit - April 16-18, 2024, Seattle, Washington

Noteworthy Hardware 🛠️ 

📟️ SparkFun's New DataLogger IoT Firmware Brings Direct Support for Logging to the Arduino Cloud

Noteworthy Repo or Crates 📦️ 

📦️ Point-and click access to MCU peripheral registers

📦️ kitamstudios/rust-analyzer.vs: Rust language support for Visual Studio 2022

📦️ Operating System development tutorials in Rust on the Raspberry Pi

Noteworthy Post/Article/Interview 🖼️

💭 Rust to Assembly: Understanding the Inner Workings of 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) Embedded Software Innovation Engineer - Codasip, Munich, Germany

• 🦀 (New) Internship @ClickShare: C++ to Rust - Barco, Kortrijk, Belguim

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer - Rohde & Schwarz, Dresden, Germany

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Nedap, Netherlands (east)

• 🦀 Rust Engineer - Fusion Engineering, Delft, Netherlands

• 🦀 Embedded Systems Engineer, Software Platform - Wayve, London, UK

• 🦀 Master Thesis: Design of a sensor fusion network to extend the control of a reliability test system - Infineon, Austria

• 🦀 Working Student: Embedded Software Development - Firmware - Infineon, Germany

• 🦀 Internship: Industrial Setup for Formal Verification of Microcontroller - Infineon, Germany

• 🦀 Linux and Rust Developer - Aira, Stockholm, Sweden

• 🦀 Rust Developer - Aira, Stockholm, Sweden

• 🦀 Working student: Rust C/C++ interoperability and support - Bosch, Germany

• 🦀 Rust Developer - Intervall, Germany

• 🦀 Embedded Developer (C, Rust) to Clean Motion - The Techno Creatives, Sweden

• 🦀 Research Scientist for Embedded Software and Security - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Software Architect for Embedded Systems - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Embedded Software Developer - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Software Developer - Siemens, Portugal

North America Based Jobs 🌎️ 

• 🦀 Staff Embedded Software Engineer - SmartThings, Hybrid, Minneapolis, MN

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer - SmartThings, Hybrid, Minneapolis, MN

• 🦀 Various Rust Oriented Positions - MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer - Umbra, Santa Barbara, CA

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Umbra, Santa Barbara, CA

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Turion Space, Irvine, CA

• 🦀 Jr. Embedded engineer (electronics & programming) - Interstellar Lab, Multiple Locations (America and Europe)

• 🦀 Sr. Embedded Engineer (electronics & programming) - Interstellar Lab, Multiple Locations (America and Europe)

• 🦀 Robotics Software Engineer (Rust) - Pictorus, Oakland, CA

• 🦀 Rust Software Engineer - Enfabrica, San Francisco, CA

• 🦀 Software Engineer, Embedded System - Fourier, Palo Alto, CA

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Rust Regards and Binary Blessings, 🦀

- Omar