Systems programming language with memory safety guarantees and zero-cost abstractions for embedded development. Growing ecosystem with mature tooling and HAL crates for major MCU families.
Start pilot projects on new developments, invest in team training, evaluate for safety-critical applications
Why Pilot and not Deploy? Rust's embedded toolchain (cortex-m, cortex-m-rt, embedded-hal, probe-rs, defmt) is genuinely production-ready, and a handful of mature teams have shipped Rust firmware (Espressif ESP-RS, some automotive and IoT vendors). But the broad embedded audience in 2026 has not yet shipped Rust in production — HAL-crate quality varies sharply by MCU family, hiring is harder than for C/C++, and vendor-level tooling support is still uneven. Pilot reflects real, but not yet routine. Expect this to move to Deploy within 2-3 years as vendor support broadens and the talent pool grows.