In partnership with

🚨

Issue Highlights

🦀 Embedded Rust Job Posting emerges at Tesla
🍓 Flash a RasPi Pico from the browser
✉️ Poststation is now available for purchase
📦️ defmt is going 1.0
🏭️ ST Micro joins the Rust wave
🇫🇷 Rust in Paris Schedule is now live
⚖️ Linus weighs in again
✍️ State of Rust survey results are out!
 

💬

Quote of the Issue

📰

News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Poststation is now available to download/buy ⭐️

• Defmt is going to 1.0 ⭐️

• Release 0.27.0 · probe-rs

• STMicroelectronics and HighTec EDV-Systeme collaborate for safer software-defined vehicles ⭐️

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• 2024 State of Rust Survey Results ⭐️

• Rust in Paris schedule now available ⭐️

• Rust Jobs Report: January 2025

• FOSDEM 2025: Rust Runs Riot in Linux Despite Backlash

• 'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama ⭐️

• 'Key kernel maintainers' still back Rust in the Linux kernel, despite the doubters

• crates.io: development update

• January 2025 Project Director Update

• Nell Shamrell-Harrington Elected as Rust Foundation Board of Directors Chair

• Q4 2024 Recap from Rebecca Rumbul

• RustConf 2025 is Coming to Seattle from September 2-5

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• A Convolution Revolution in Edge AI

• Infineon's Imagimob Launches Free, Open Source DEEPCRAFT Starter Models for Edge AI Developers

• NXP buys Kinara for $307M to power AI workloads at the network edge

• SEGGER announces Embedded Studio and J-Link support for NXP’s MCX chip family

• Roboreactor – A Web-based platform to design Raspberry Pi or Jetson-based robots from electronics to code and 3D files

• Welcoming ControlSI to the Arduino Pro System Integrators Partnership Program

• Military researchers eye future project for on-system cyber security in bus-based embedded computing

• Trusted computing encryption and cyber security for Linux embedded computing software introduced by SYSGO

• ST launches the ST67W611M1, featuring Wi-Fi 6, BLE 5.3, and support for Thread and Matter

• ESP Support for WebRTC Emerges

• OpenWrt 24.10 released with Linux 6.6, TLS 1.3 by default, and 1970 supported devices

• Experimental Firmware Turns Any Espressif ESP32 Into a Google Find My Device Tag

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• Mixing Rust and C in Linux Likened To Cancer By Kernel Maintainer

• The state of Rust trying to catch up with Ada

• C++, Go, and Rust gaining popularity – Tiobe

• Why “Rust” Programs Are Fat & Have Long Compile Times

Hardware 🛠️

• Adafruit Unveils a Work-in-Progress Raspberry Pi RP2350B Single-Board Computer, the "Fruit Jam"

• CPico RP2350 is another Raspberry Pi Pico 2 alternative

• Tiny WeAct RP2350B Core Board exposes all 48 I/Os from the Raspberry Pi RP2350B microcontroller

• RP2350-USB-A – A Raspberry Pi RP2350 board with an extra USB Type-A port using a PIO implementation

• Nuvoton introduces the first security chip based on OpenTitan open-source silicon Root of Trust

📚️

Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Master Rust FFI: Building Robust Cross-Language Systems | A Complete Guide

• Mastering Advanced I/O in Rust: Efficient, Async, and Beyond

• Building a Compiler & Interpreter in Rust! Part 2 Compiler.rs file

• Little Rust Tip: Create a Static at Runtime

• Mix in Rust with Java (or Kotlin!)

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Rust Rules! (Programming Language-Wise)

• Rust(ing) the Future of Compilers: Pliron as the MLIR Alternative (No C/C++)

• Build Serverless Applications Using Rust on AWS Lambda

• A Basic AI Prompt Helped Me Learn Rust

• How Rust Could Change Robotics

• We are destroying software

• Writing a simple windows driver in Rust

• A Preliminary Study of Fixed Flaky Tests in Rust Projects on GitHub

• FlashMyPico – Raspberry Pi Pico / Pico 2 code editing and firmware flashing from a web browser ⭐️

• How I solved the "error: linking with cc failed" in Large Rust Projects with Mold

• Programming AI with Rust: What You Need to Know

• Rust for AI Engineers: Unleashing the Power of Performance and Safety

• Secure Communications in Embedded Systems

• How to optimize the power consumption of embedded systems?

• How I learned to stop worrying and love the LLM

• The Hidden Control Flow — Some Insights on an Async Cancellation Problem in Rust

• Rust in Linux: A Powerful Tool—But How Do We Strike the Right Balance?

General Embedded 📟️

• Designing Your First Embedded Linux Device (Part 1): Framing the Development Process

• Optimizing AI for Microcontrollers

• RISC-V Revolution: How Open Processors Are Changing the CPU Market

• GenAI Meets SLMs: A New Era for Edge Computing 

• C++ for embedded systems: constexpr and consteval

• Efficient and Secure μ-Training and μ-Fine-Tuning for TinyML Optimization and Personalization at the Edge

• EdgeMark: An Automation and Benchmarking System for Embedded Artificial Intelligence Tools

• Control your Raspberry PI GPIO with Arduino Cloud using Node.js | Part III

• Using Stacks in Embedded Systems

• How I Built a SpeedtestTracker with Raspberry PI and AWS Lambda

• Enhanced Vector Quantization for Embedded Machine Learning: A Post-Training Approach With Incremental Clustering

• Enhancing Reliability in Embedded Systems Hardware: A Literature Survey

• An optimized lightweight real-time detection network model for IoT embedded devices

⭐️

Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫

🏫 Rust for System Programmers

Noteworthy Book 📚️

📕 Async Rust

Noteworthy Newsletter 📰

📰 Techpresso - Keep up with AI & Tech in 5 mins

📢

Updates, Events, & Announcements

Updates & announcements from the community

Notable Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨

• probe-rs v0.27.0

• svdtools v0.4.4

• py32f0xx-hal v0.2.2

• zerocopy v0.8.17

• esp32-nimble v0.10.1

• embassy-rp v0.3.1

• stm32-hal2 v1.9.0

• edge-net v0.10.1

• edge-http v0.5.1

• jh71xx-hal v0.7.0

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• Rust Nation UK 2025 - February 19 & 20, 2025, London, UK

• Workshop: Rust-Python Interoperability - February 27 & 28, 2025, Online

• Rust in Paris  - March 14, 2025, Paris, France

• Rustikon - March 26, 2025, Warsaw, Poland

• RUSTAsia - March 28, 2025, Hong Kong + Online

• Rust Konf Türkiye - April 20, 2025, Istanbul, Turkey

• RustWeek by RustNL - May 13-17, 2025, Utrect, The Netherlands

• Open Hardware Summit - May 30 & 31st, 2025, Edinburgh, Scotland

• Rust Summit -- Call For Proposals Open - June 7, 2025, Belgrade, Serbia

• Rust Forge - Call For Sponsors Open - August 2025, Wellington, New Zealand

• RustConf - September 2-5, 2025, Seattle, USA

• Oxidize - September 16-18, 2025, Berlin, Germany

• EuroRust - October 9-10, 2025, Paris, France

💼

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.

Want to share a job post?

Europe Based Jobs 🌍️

• 🦀 Embedded Linux Developer - Distran, Zurich

• 🦀 Rust Developer/Promoter - Collabora, Remote

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

• 🦀 Embedded Linux Software Engineer - Canonical, Global, Hybrid

• 🦀 Doctoral Thesis: Functional Software Generation - Infineon, Munich, Germany

North America Based Jobs 🌎️

• 🦀 (New) Rust Software Engineer, Vehicle Simulation - Tesla, Palo Alto, CA

• 🦀 Open Source Robotics Engineer - rerun.io, Remote

• 🦀 Sr. Embedded Software Engineer, Consumer Hardware (Starlink) - SpaceX, Bastrop, TX

• 🦀 Rust embedded Software Engineer - General Dynamics, Dedham, MA

• 🦀 Sr. Embedded Software Engineer, Energy Products - Tesla, Palo Alto, SF

• 🦀 Flight Software in Rust - NASA, USA

• 🦀 Sr Embedded Systems Engineer (Gateway Experience) - Lynq, Boulder, CO

• 🦀 Satellite Flight Software Engineer (Rust), Senior - Lynk, Falls Church, VA

• 🦀 Rust Software Engineer - K2 Space, Los Angeles, CA

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

• 🦀 Embedded Linux Software Engineer - Canonical, Global, Hybrid

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

🔃

Reader Feedback

Help us know how we are doing

Have More Detailed Feedback?

That’s a wrap!

Rust Regards and Binary Blessings, 🦀

- Omar

Poststation is a tool from James Munns for connecting embedded devices with applications running on a PC, laptop, or embedded linux system. It works with any device speaking the postcard-rpc protocol. See more and download at poststation.rs, and if you like it, purchase a license with discount code ERNEWSLTR5 for 10% off to support the Embedded Rustacean Newsletter!