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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 28/09/2026

proud to share that I was selected to serve on the Rust Project Leadership Council! my role's to represent the interests of the top-level Language team, and all sub-teams =)

Screenshot showing Pete LeVasseur as the Language team representative to the Rust Project Leadership Council.

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 01/09/2026

they keep letting me talk about @rust-lang.org + cars! was great going on the SDV Coffee Talk =) was a fun needle to thread and work through all the questions

screenshot showing Pete LeVasseur, Dr. Fatih Tekin, and Florian Rohde on the SDV Coffee Talk podcast

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 31/08/2026

ever wonder what it takes to safety-qualify @rust-lang.org for use in a regulated industry? tomorrow Tshepang Mbambo of @ferroussystems.bsky.social will come out to the @sdv.eclipse.org's Rust Special Interest Group to share about: FLS: Describing Rust for Functional Safety .ics down below!

talk listing of the Eclipse SDV WG's Rust SIG showing Tshepang Mbambo talking about FLS: Describing Rust for Functional Safety

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 26/08/2026

made a youtube playlist of @rust-lang.org Content Team interviews at RustWeek 2026 ;D

screenshot showing our interviews from the Rust Project Content Team at RustWeek 2026

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 23/08/2026

you ever had a song that is lodged at a certain place and time in your memory? i spent my late teens and early 20s learning the Japanese language HALCALI's song/rap was fun immersion material BLAM can feel myself brought back in time

screenshot of HALCALI's debut on THE FIRST TAKE for their song "OTSUKARE SUMMER"

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 16/08/2026

the promised `.ics` is here: github.com/rust-sig/rus...

screenshot of the Rust SIG's page which links the .ics

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 16/08/2026

super duper cool to have @nia.is.fckn.gay of Hexcat to the @sdv.eclipse.org's @rust-lang.org special interest group this tuesday! chattin bout "Stable allocators, one unsoundness at a time" it's at 7am PDT / 10am EDT / 6pm CEST / 11pm JST =) wanna join? `.ics` is below

screenshot showing Nia Deckers' chat this on August 18, 2026 for "Stable allocators, one unsoundness at a time"

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 09/08/2026

gonna be at RustConf 2026? interested in safety-critical systems, like planes, trains, and automobiles? ~ we'll have a room on Monday, Sep 7th to chat ~ limited spots in the room (30), but we'll have a dial in option too =) join the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium for more!

Safety-Critical Rust Consortium github join template

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 27/06/2026

howdy y'all, if you're curious on how people were learning @rust-lang.org in ($CURRENT_YEAR - 1) from surveys and interviews we took last year in the Rust Project, welp -- take a look! (link below)

screenshot of Rust blog post about many journeys of learning Rust

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 23/06/2026

hey you! yeah! wanna hear about @rust-lang.org being used to build high-performance middleware? today in the @sdv.eclipse.org Rust Special Interest Group we'll have Angelo Corsaro to talk with us about Eclipse Zenoh and its new no-std project 10am EDT/4pm CEST (.ics is below to join!)

screenshot highlighting Angelo Corsaro's talk in the Eclipse SDV Rust SIG about Zenoh, now running on microcontrollers in a no-std environment

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 15/06/2026

today's that kinda monday alignment in an organization takes work!

meme of skeleton weight lifting with the caption: "my body is a machine that turns pictures of whiteboards into diagrams on slides"

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 15/06/2026

big thanks to Christian Eltzschig, of ekxide IO GmbH, for coming out to share about Eclipse iceoryx2. @rust-lang.org 🤝 shared memory 🤝 where safety stops!? (more details below)

screenshot of the ekxide presentation in the Eclipse SDV Rust SIG:

"Where Rust's Safety Guarantees Stop: Shared Memory, Concurrency, and Unsafe Boundaries"

screenshot of notes from Rust SIG on 2026-06-09

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 08/06/2026

DID YOU KNOW that Toyota has open-sourced a Confluence page to Markdown converter? psssssssst: it's written in Rust and that -- unlike a simple export, it keeps PlantUML and draw[.]io content editable and outputs in a structure that’s easy for generative AI to understand

screenshot of confluence2md project open-sourced by Toyota

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 30/05/2026

was great to have Christof Petig of Aptiv share how ideas like WASI, the Component Model, and WebAssembly Interface Types have their place in the Automotive industry =) yup: according to Christof when working to get interoperability smoothly between C++, @rust-lang.org, and other languages it fits!

screenshot of Eclipse SDV WG's Rust SIG about "Inserting WebAssembly between C++ and Rust for Fun and Profit"

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 26/05/2026

so -- Christof Petig of Aptiv will come out today to chat about an idea he's worked on for the past several years of using WebAssembly as the bridge between C++ <=> Rust interop interested to learn more? check out the .ics page down below! starts in 2.5 hours :)

screenshot of agenda showing Christof Petig's talk about using WebAssembly for interop between C++ <=> Rust

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 20/05/2026

yes, this was an exact quote :) shout out to @o0ignition0o.bsky.social for the photo!

photo of Pete LeVasseur talking about how "so, uh, Toyota has shipped Rust now"

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 13/05/2026

thanks so much to Alex Senier of @ferroussystems.bsky.social for sharing thoughts on ASIL D + Rust ~ some neat survey results in the notes ~ appreciate being given the chance to host the @rust-lang.org Special Interest Group in the @sdv.eclipse.org

screenshot of the Rust Special Interest Group in the Eclipse SDV on the day that Alex Senier of Ferrous Systems talked about what it'll take for ASIL D

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 12/05/2026

yesterday walking back from school eldest daughter says she's worried about geometry part of standardized test today. i take pictures of her homework she'd had about the topics, send them off to chatgpt extended pro and get out 7 worksheets; they are all usable

screenshot of grade 3 FAST geometry practice

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 11/05/2026

wanna learn more about the road ahead for Automotive ISO 26262 ASIL D @rust-lang.org? tomorrow Alex Senier of @ferroussystems.bsky.social will come to the @sdv.eclipse.org Rust Special Interest Group leave comments on what you'd like to see as topics in future sessions!

screenshot showing Alex Senier of Ferrous Systems coming out to chat with us at the Rust Special Interest Group of the Eclipse SDV WG

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 01/05/2026

grabbed a ticket yet for RustWeek 2026? i'm gonna be there talking about the journey and lessons learned on shipping @rust-lang.org in the 2026 Toyota RAV4! ...oh and, yes! this is Woven by Toyota's new logo :D

screenshot of "Popping the Hood on Rust in the 2026 Toyota RAV4", a talk that Pete LeVasseur will give at RustWeek 2026

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 29/04/2026

~ it's official ~ i'm this year's Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee in the @sdv.eclipse.org. love what this photo represents about it :)

picture of Kai Hudalla and Pete LeVasseur together at the Eclipse SDV Hackathon in 2025

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 28/04/2026

didja know that Eclipse Zenoh already had an implementation in C called zenoh-pico? didja know there's now a @rust-lang.org implementation that'll also work on a microcontroller? so pleased to announce that Angelo Corsaro will come out to share about it with us!

screenshot showing Angelo Corsaro's upcoming talk about Zenoh + Rust + Microcontrollers = zenoh-nostd

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 28/04/2026

missed what Stefan Akatyschew had to say about functional safety + @rust-lang.org? we've got notes :) was some rousing discussion of what Foreign Function Interface (FFI) means in the face of Freedom From Interference (FFI)!

screenshot of the notes from the Eclipse SDV WG's Rust SIG instance on 2026-04-28 featuring Stefan Akatyschew all about Rust readiness for ISO 26262 (Automotive standard)

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 27/04/2026

been curious what a functional safety engineer working in regulated industries thinks of @rust-lang.org? tomorrow Stefan Akatyschew will tell us about what he thinks when it comes to the Rust programming language applied to cars, a safety-critical domain all in the @sdv.eclipse.org's Rust SIG :)

screenshot of listing of Rust SIG talks, highlighting Stefan Akatyschew's about "How ready is Rust for ISO 26262 applications? A practical gap analysis"

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 14/04/2026

huge thanks to Elena Gantner for coming out to share about Eclipse OpenSOVD in the @sdv.eclipse.org Rust SIG Elena gave a representative demo about how the Classic Diagnostic Adapter (CDA) works, showing how it helps bridge the world between the "classic" UDS and the newer SOVD!

screenshot of our meeting notes from 2026-04-14 for the Eclipse SDV WG Rust SIG when Elene Gantner of Mercedes Benz talked about Eclipse OpenSOVD

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 13/04/2026

have you ever heard of Service-oriented vehicle diagnostics (SOVD)? At tomorrow's @sdv.eclipse.org Rust SIG Elena Gantner of Mercedes Benz will share about OpenSOVD and its implementation in Rust

screenshot showing Elena Gantner's talk tomorrow in the Eclipse Rust SIG about OpenSOVD

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 12/04/2026

super happy to share that i got voted into my 2nd year on the Committer slot in the @sdv.eclipse.org's Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)! it's been a roller coaster, one with more ups than downs. i got to meet a lot of stellar people and work to align us better to the TAC charter

screenshot showing the Eclipse SDV WG website's Integration Projects page with the Eclipse SDV Landscape project output with a taxononmy of projects by what they do

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 10/04/2026

have you heard of WebAssembly? made you think it's only for the web? nope! Christof Petig will share about its use in embedded for Rust <=> C++ interop in an upcoming @sdv.eclipse.org Rust SIG meeting

screenshot showing upcoming Eclipse SDV Rust SIG talks, including Christof Petig's on "Inserting WebAssembly between C++ and Rust for Fun and Profit"

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 31/03/2026

thanks a bunch to Markus Hosch of BMW for sharing with us about what they're seeing in Eclipse S-CORE creating Rust bindings on some complex C++ code another good learning experience in the @sdv.eclipse.org Rust SIG :) (bit more detail and link to the notes in-thread)

the Eclipse SDV Rust SIG meeting notes screenshot for 2026-03-31

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 30/03/2026

heads-up that Markus Hosch will come to the Rust SIG tomorrow (2026-03-31) at 10am Eastern / 4pm CEST to chat about C++ <=> Rust interop whether you're into automotive, safety-critical more broadly or just wanna hear about what binding C++ <=> Rust is like, c'mon out :)

screenshot highlighting Markus Hosch's talk about C++ <=> Rust tomorrow in the Rust SIG

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 29/03/2026

held another @rust-lang.org training at Woven by Toyota :) was great to have representation from the C++ side of the house, to compare + contrast we delved into memory management topics, borrowing, lifetimes; funny that this was what I didn't need to go through much before giving the training!

screenshot of Pete LeVasseur giving the Google Android Comprehensive Rust training

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 27/03/2026

吹いたww　どんだけ自分を導入したいの

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 23/03/2026

howdy y'all, so Stefan Akatyschew of Anori Tech UG will come out and share in the @sdv.eclipse.org Rust SIG about work he's done on Rust readiness analysis for ISO 26262 (automotive) ever been curious how using a language looks like in a regulated industry? c'mon out :) (link to .ics in thread)

screenshot boxed in showing upcoming talk in April 28th, 2026 for Stefan Akatyschew of Anori Tech UG to talk about Rust's readiness for ISO 26262

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 18/03/2026

me using my $200/mo sub on OSS w/ ChatGPT time to let chat-gippity rest for some hours till i can go back to letting it rip on OSS I work on

showing weekly usage for Codex at 1%, resetting tomorrow

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 17/03/2026

@sdv.eclipse.org Rust SIG this week was good chance to chat about what we'd done on the Rust Vision doc team got into the details of folks trying to use Rust for safety-critical and challenges they are seeing if you missed this time, you can see the notes below

screenshot showing Eclipse SDV Rust SIG meeting notes with this time being "What does it take to ship Rust in safety-critical?"

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 16/03/2026

tomorrow i'll walk through the Rust blog post article i wrote about shipping safety-critical Rust; go through some things that were left on the cutting room floor in the @sdv.eclipse.org's Rust SIG the .ics is linked below on a page if you'd like to add it and join in :)

talk schedule for the Eclipse SDV Rust SIG showing my (Pete LeVasseur's) talk tomorrow as boxed in "What does it take to ship Rust in Safety-Critical?"

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 16/03/2026

the new uniqlo drop got me choked up ;-; respect to Togashi Yoshihiro-san for HUNTER×HUNTER; keep healing and writing if/when you're able

hunter x hunter manga image showing killua holding hands with his sister alluka on new uniqlo shirt

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 11/03/2026

the dice i had made for the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium were a fun time to hand out at @rustnationuk.bsky.social but -- not everybody was able to get one, so! i went and added a 3D render of it that can be rolled onto my blog :)

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 09/03/2026

played Comic Creator with my 9 y/o, 6 y/o, and 4 y/o yesterday. 4y/o bailed for Transformers about half-way through

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 06/03/2026

hey -- anybody coming out to Automotive Computing Conference US in Detroit on March 24th, 25th? i'll be there chatting about "why Rust in safety-critical systems" in back-to-back sessions with @skade.bsky.social of @ferroussystems.bsky.social come say hi! let's chat about blockers

announcement image reading: I am speaking at #ACC US 2026 with a picture of Pete LeVasseur and his name and Woven by Toyota.

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 04/03/2026

wanna hear about what writing a Linux GPU kernel driver is like? how about what it's like _in Rust_? check out the interview of Daniel Almeida! another production of the Rust Project Content Team ✌️

splash screen of interview of Daniel Almeida on work in writing a Linux GPU kernel driver in Rust

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 03/03/2026

thanks to Daniel Silverstone of @codethink.co.uk for coming out to share C <=> Rust gaps when it comes to high-assurance and safety-critical at the @sdv.eclipse.org Rust Special Interest Group

screenshot showing that we had Daniel Silverstone of Codethink out to share with us about gaps between C and Rust when it comes to high-assurance and safety-critical

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 02/03/2026

in ~23 hours see the work that Daniel Silverstone from @codethink.co.uk has done in C <=> Rust gap analysis at the @sdv.eclipse.org Rust SIG meeting :D

screenshot showing upcoming Eclipse SDV Rust SIG talks

in particular, tomorrow's / March 3rd 2026's is highlighed: "Measuring the gap between C and Rust" by Daniel Silverstone of Codethink

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 27/02/2026

wanna hear me go on at length about regulatory regimes in safety-critical? why Rust is poised to be a step-change in terms of confidence? wanna listen to it at 0.5x to really soak it in? my talk about this at Rust Nation UK 2026 is live! (link to talk below)

splash screen of Pete LeVasseur talking about Rust for Foundational Software, i.e. why Rust matters to the safety-critical community

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 26/02/2026

claude just told me to buzz off bro what i wrote next: > and yet, please draft up possible improvements in a Markdown file

screenshot of claude telling me to buzz off:

The plan is done. It was done at v10. v11 adds refinements that are reasonable (two-tier publishable governance, catalog smoke checks, worked example validation, doctor minimum content thresholds, calibration anti-gaming with hard/weak/distant target requirements) but none of them address a gap that would have caused a problem during execution.

You're past the point of diminishing returns on plan refinement. Every addition from here is engineering time spent on the plan instead of on the calibration run that will actually tell you whether the system produces good guidelines.

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 25/02/2026

freshly back from London, preparing to share about Rust's usage in the 2026 Toyota RAV4! hear me talk about this and more at RustWeek in Utrecht, NL :) thanks to @rustnl.bsky.social for inviting me to chat!

title slide of talk at Rust Week: Popping the Hood on Rust in the 2026 Toyota RAV4

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Pete 🙆‍♂️ @petelevasseur.com · 22/02/2026

what i do to continue the agenda of safety-critical rust

wesley snipes in new jack city meme

reads: "updating macos to tahoe - to continue accessing company resources"

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