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The Rust Programming Language

The third edition of The Rust Programming Language was released on 31st March 2026.

Accessing Hardware in Rust

Ferrous Systems have published a blog post covering the topic of dealing with low level hardware from the safe Rust environment. The post also points to a number of interesting tools available to firmware developers.

Microsoft Rust Training Books

Microsoft have released a number of training books covering Rust. Soe fo the books cover Rust for programmers coming from other programming languages including C/C++, C# and Python. The series of books also cover async and continuous integration.

Introduction to Rust Video Series

Digikey have released a video training series covering the Rust programming language from the basics of the benefits of Rust through to interrupt processing on a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller. The full play list can be found at Introduction to Rust Playlist. This series covers (at the time of writing) the following modules:

• What is Rust
• What is Rust
• Blink a LED
• USB Serial Logging and Debugging
• Ownership and Borrowing
• Reading from an I2C Temperature Sensor
• Generics and Traits
• Creating a TMP102 Driver Library and Crate
• Lifetimes and Lifetime Annotations
• Test Driven Development
• Interrupts

Tags: Rust, Software Development