Rust Unwrapped 2025

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First Quarter (Q1): January 1 – March 31, 2025

• Newly Updated Rust Trademark Policy Released

• Why Roc Is Moving Away From Rust to Zig

• Rust Survey 2024: Company Adoption Increases by 4% Over Previous Year

• Rust 2024 Edition Reaches Stability

• Rerun, a Rust-based open-source tool for visualizing and managing multimodal data, recently raised $17M in seed funding to build a comprehensive data platform for Physical AI.

• async-std has been discontinued; use smol instead with maintainter

Second Quarter (Q2): April 1 – June 30, 2025

• Biome released v2.0 Beta for testing, marking a major milestone for the project that kicked off two years ago.

• Rust foundation leaving twitter and setting home in BlueSky and Mastodon.

• The State of Rust GUI – The Good and Bad A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries b boring cactus.

• let chains are officially stabilized and are expected and got released in Rust v1.88.

• Ubuntu’s Rusty Revolution with announcement of Sudo-rs being incoprporated into the terminal.

• Rust Week conference happened in Utrecht and it was a blast seeing people from various companies building killer products and Rust enthusiasts meet up to geek out about Rust all week long.

• Rustc Hits GCC Milestone with the GCC backend for Rust’s compiler pulled off a full stage-3 bootstrap, we spilled our coffee in excitement.

• Rust is Officially in the Linux Kernel with released of Linux 6.15,

• NSA Backs Memory-Safe Programming. This report comes 16 months after the White House’s “A Path Toward Secure and Measurable Software”, urging the move to memory safe languages.

Third Quarter (Q3): July 1 – September 30, 2025

• Turso Silences the Critics with the released of Last week they announced an alpha release which is Turso a rewrite SQLite in Rust under the codename Project Limbo.

• Rust’s Big Fix for Crates introducing the Extended Standard Library (ESL) proposal with a bold plan to bless a select crew of crates with a shiny trustworthy badge. But the question remains: will it solve the problems it is intended to address?

• Tree Borrows Just Landed with With the paper to bring Tree Borrows: a new Rust aliasing model to life. This new model, recently celebrated at PLDI’25, is shaking up how Rust handles pointer shenanigans.

• RustWasm to Be Archived announcement Last week Alex Crichton from the Compiler team announced they’re archiving the Rust and Web Assembly GitHub org, which feels like a bittersweet breakup.

• Oxidizing Fedora. After watching Linux and Ubuntu slowly embrace Rust and actually benefit from it, Red Hat seems to have caught a case of FOMO (fear of missing out). Quietly, they’ve rewritten Greenboot in Rust.

• Rust Tops the Charts Again according to Stack Overflow Developer Survey, For the tenth year in a row, Rust has once again snagged the “Most Admired Language” crown, with 72% of devs swooning over its memory-safe magic

• Rust Gets Tail Calls Rust nightly recently shipped support for become keyword and explicit tail call codegen for the LLVM backend.

• RustConf took place in Seattle, Washington.

• Rust Compiler Performance Working Group launched a survey with the aim of understanding the pain points of compiler performance and get a sense of where improvements are most needed. The results are out.

Fourth Quarter (Q4): October 1 – December 31, 2025

• Rust Gets a Garbage Collector A couple of weeks ago, Jacob Hughes and Laurence Tratt from soft-dev.org published an eyebrow-raising paper titled “Garbage Collection for Rust: The Finalizer Frontier”.

• Another Vulnerability Hits Rust’s Ecosystem Researchers at Edera found a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2025-62518) that lets attackers pull off remote code execution through something as innocent as unpacking a .tar file.

• Windows ARM64 is now Tier 1 - With Rust 1.91.0 Rust now gives full test coverage and prebuilt binaries for aarch64-pc-windows-msvc. This is good news for Surface Pro users alike to stop feeling like beta testers.

• Rust-Proofing Android - Google released a progress report on Rust in the Android codebase and the numbers don’t lie: a 1000x drop in memory-safety vulnerabilities and a 0.2 bugs per million lines of Rust.

• How Rust Crashed the Internet at AWS Cloudflare announced on September, 26 how they had recently rewritten ~20% of its edge network in Rust for better performance, security, and memory safety.

• Debian’s Rust Upgrade - In a recent announcement on the debian mailing list, maintainer Julian Andres Klode outlined plans to introduce hard Rust dependencies into APT no earlier than May 2026.

• Ferrocene Lands New Certification Ferrocene v25.11.0 shipped with major safety-certification milestones.

• Rust Is Officially Part of Linux Mainline That changed last week at the 2025 Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit, the kernel devs finally flipped the switch: Rust’s no longer experimental, it’s core. For a language whose first Rust-written drivers only landed in December 2023 (hitting 6.8 release), this is seismic.

• Rust 1.92.0 got released Second, Rust v1.92.0 got released. It’s the last release of the year, and despite the usual end-of-year hype blackout, it delivered some genuinely solid improvements and features.