Embassy is still rare in commercial products - which makes Gerhard de Clercq's (Low Noise Factory AB) experience at Oxidize 2026 worth paying attention to.
He'll cover what it actually took to ship an embedded product built on Embassy: the hurdles, the web server gotchas, and how hardware simulation factored into both the electronics design and firmware development sides of the project.
Async Rust is amazing, but embedded application shows that it is far from the zero cost abstractions we were promised. Dion proposes to fix this problem at the root, in the compiler: https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/237/async-rust-never-left-the-mvp-state
If you're with a company or organization that can benefit from this work and is willing help fund it, please reach out to @diondokter!
Integrating vendor drivers sounds manageable - until you’re doing it across multiple devices from different manufacturers.
James McNally (@wiresmith) made the switch from LabVIEW to Rust several years ago and has since worked through it. At Oxidize 2026 he'll share the practical patterns that worked, the tradeoffs between different approaches, and the open questions he's still working through.
🔗 https://oxidizeconf.com/sessions/patterns_for_integrating_vendor_drivers_in_rust
Embedded Rust or C Firmware? Lessons from an Industrial Microcontroller Use Case
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25679
#HackerNews #EmbeddedRust #CProgramming #Microcontrollers #FirmwareDevelopment #IndustrialTech
As Rust gains traction for developing safer systems software, a reality check for the microcontroller hardware segment becomes necessary. How ready is the Rust ecosystem for this segment? Can Rust compete with C in practice? This paper reports on an IoT industrial case study that contributes to answering these questions. Two teams concurrently developing the same functionality (one in C, one in Rust) are analyzed over a period of several months. A comparative analysis of their approaches, results, and iterative efforts is provided. The analysis and measurements on hardware indicate no strong reason to prefer C over Rust for microcontroller firmware on the basis of memory footprint or execution speed. Furthermore, Ariel OS is shown to provide an efficient and portable system runtime in Rust whose footprint is smaller than that of the state-of-the-art bare-metal C stack traditionally used in this context. It is concluded that Rust is a sound choice today for firmware development in this domain.
The Oxidize 2026 agenda is out - and tickets are now on sale.
Oxidize is the leading conference at the intersection of applied Rust and real-world decision-making, bringing together developers and technical leaders building Rust systems in production.
Check it out and grab your ticket 👉 https://oxidizeconf.com/
Delivering high-accuracy neonatal monitoring with Rust and Ferrocene in a joint project with @ferrous.
Find the demo at Booth 4-402 in Hall 4 at Embedded World.
#RustLang #EmbeddedRust #Ferrocene #EmbeddedSystems #MedTech
Ferrocene 26.02.0 is out 🦀
Highlights:
👉 ISO 26262 ASIL B certification for part of Rust core
👉 Qualified Rust toolchain for safety-critical systems
If you’re at #ew26, come by booth 4-402 to talk to us about #embeddedRust (and get some stickers).
Read more: 🔗 https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/ferrocene-26-02-0/
🦀 #RustLang now targets Cortex-R82 / R82AE.
Support for Armv8-R AArch64 means Rust can run in a new class of performance-oriented real-time systems. Nice step toward bringing memory-safe tooling into more embedded and safety-critical environments.
For teams that need it, Ferrocene provides a qualified toolchain.
If you’re at #EmbeddedWorld March 10 - 12, come say hi 👋
Hall 4 / Booth 4-402
device-envoy: Making Embedded Fun with Rust!
Talk by Carl Kadie at Seattle Rust User Group.
Oxidize Conf Sep 14-16, 2026
Tweede golf
Hacker News
KDAB
Ferrous Systems
Peter Hartley
Rust Bytes 🦀