Pete ๐Ÿ™†
@AwkwardMap

Rust @ Woven by Toyota ๐Ÿฆ€โœŒ๏ธ Lead @ Safety-Critical Rust Consortium, Chair @ Coding Guidelines, 3 x girl dad, ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต ๆ—ฅๆœฌ่ชžใ‚ชใƒƒใ‚ฑใƒผ

petelevasseur.com/
Joined October 2020
i'll share my experiences doing @rustlang training at tomorrow's Rust SIG at @SDVeclipse on 10-13 @ 10am EDT / 4pm CEST i've done more lecture style, more hands-on, and also run some agentic engineering training and wanna share you can find the .ics below to join ;D
screenshot showing Pete LeVasseur doing training at three different kinds of sessions as a talk topic on October 13, 2026 at the Eclipse SDV WG's Rust SIG

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was back to the Woven by Toyota office in Nihonbashi, running a @rustlang training for 20 participants! ~40 more folks or so signed up for sessions in January =)
picture of Pete LeVasseur running Rust training in Nihonbashi Woven by Toyota office

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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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piped.video/watch?v=p27q4Ri8โ€ฆ
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they keep letting me talk about @rustlang + 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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ever wonder what it takes to safety-qualify @rustlang for use in a regulated industry? tomorrow Tshepang Mbambo of @FerrousSystems will come out to the @SDVeclipse'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

ALT 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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made a youtube playlist of @rustlang Content Team interviews at RustWeek 2026 ;D
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link to Long Kiss Goodbye: piped.video/watch?v=a2dj6zTYโ€ฆ

Halcali - Long Kiss Goodbye

HALCALI (ใƒใƒซใ‚ซใƒช, Harukari?) (a portmanteau of the names Halca (ใƒใƒซใ‚ซ, H...

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link to THE FIRST TAKE rendition: piped.video/watch?v=_YShE6reโ€ฆ

HALCALI - ใŠใคใ‹ใ‚ŒSUMMER / THE FIRST TAKE

ใ€ŒTHE FIRST TAKEใ€ใฏใ€ไธ€็™บๆ’ฎใ‚Šใฎใƒ‘ใƒ•ใ‚ฉใƒผใƒžใƒณใ‚นใ‚’้ฎฎๆ˜Žใซๅˆ‡ใ‚Šๅ–ใ‚‹YouTubeใƒใƒฃใƒณใƒใƒซใ€‚็ฌฌ670ๅ›žใฏใ€HALCAใจY...

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seems this song ใŠ็–ฒใ‚ŒSUMMER became a hit in 2025's summer, so 22 years later they made a music video piped.video/watch?v=ViFHruS6โ€ฆ

HALCALI / ใŠใคใ‹ใ‚ŒSUMMER (Official Music Video)

2025ๅนดๅคใ€ๅ…จไธ–็•Œใงๅคงใƒ’ใƒƒใƒˆใ‚’่จ˜้Œฒใ—ใŸHALCALIใ€ŒใŠใคใ‹ใ‚ŒSUMMERใ€ใƒชใƒชใƒผใ‚นใ‹ใ‚‰22ๅนดใฎๆ™‚ใ‚’็ตŒใฆๅ…ฌๅผMusic Video...

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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"

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

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the promised `.ics` is here: github.com/rust-sig/rust-sigโ€ฆ
screenshot of the Rust SIG's page which links the .ics

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super duper cool to have Nia Deckers of Hexcat to the @SDVeclipse's @rustlang 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"

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

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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 issue template

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you ever wanted to see three people chat about a release of @rustlang? the Rust Project Content Team put together this one talking about Rust Stable Release 1.97.0 ;D piped.video/watch?v=lUoQ3uGSโ€ฆ

Rust Release Changelog - 1.97.0

Hi, hello. Welcome to another video in the Rust Release Changelog S...

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howdy y'all, if you're curious on how people were learning @rustlang in ($CURRENT_YEAR - 1) from surveys and interviews we took last year in the Rust Project, welp -- take a look! (link below)
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hey you! yeah! wanna hear about @rustlang being used to build high-performance middleware? today in the @SDVeclipse 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

ALT 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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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"

ALT 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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big thanks to Christian Eltzschig, of ekxide IO GmbH, for coming out to share about Eclipse iceoryx2. @rustlang ๐Ÿค shared memory ๐Ÿค 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"

ALT 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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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 thatโ€™s easy for generative AI to understand
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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 =) when working to get interoperability smoothly between C++, @rustlang, 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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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

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

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thanks so much to @AlexSenier of @FerrousSystems for sharing thoughts on ASIL D + Rust ~ some neat survey results in the notes ~ appreciate being given the chance to host the @rustlang Special Interest Group in the @SDVeclipse
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

ALT 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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yesterday walking back from school eldest daughter says she's worried about geometry part of standardized test today. 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
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wanna learn more about the road ahead for Automotive ISO 26262 ASIL D @rustlang? tomorrow @AlexSenier of @FerrousSystems will come to the @SDVeclipse 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

ALT 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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grabbed a ticket yet for RustWeek 2026? i'm gonna be there talking about the journey and lessons learned on shipping @rustlang 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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~ it's official ~ i'm this year's Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee in the @SDVeclipse. love what this photo represents about it :)
picture of Kai Hudalla and Pete LeVasseur together at the Eclipse SDV Hackathon in 2025

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

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didja know that Eclipse Zenoh already had an implementation in C called zenoh-pico? didja know there's now a @rustlang implementation that'll also work on a microcontroller? so pleased to announce that @acorsaro 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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missed what Stefan Akatyschew had to say about functional safety + @rustlang? 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)

ALT 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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curious what a functional safety engineer working in regulated industries thinks of @rustlang? tomorrow Stefan Akatyschew tells us about what he thinks when it comes to the Rust programming language applied to cars, a safety-critical domain all in the @SDVeclipse 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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oh odd, i just got asked to upgrade to 1.4.6 for opencode and ended up not able to get it to start anymore then downgraded to 1.3.17 and still unable to start running opencode within an x86_64 linux vm on macos anybody else hitting this?
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huge thanks to Elena Gantner for coming out to share about Eclipse OpenSOVD in the @SDVeclipse 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

ALT 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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have you ever heard of Service-oriented vehicle diagnostics (SOVD)? At tomorrow's @SDVeclipse 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

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

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super happy to share that i got voted into my 2nd year on the Committer slot in the @SDVeclipse'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

ALT 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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howdy, here's the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium's March 2026 Newsletter highlights: - RustWeek 2026 SCRC room secured, thank you to @FerrousSystems for sponsoring it - CERT C => Rust mapping got major reviews - ISO 26262 + Rust readiness analysis ready (more follow in-thread)
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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 @SDVeclipse 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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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)
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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 :)
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held another @rustlang training at Woven by Toyota :) was great to have 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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me when i present on "why use the Rust programming language in automotive systems" when wearing the @pants "RATS" shirt
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so Stefan Akatyschew of Anori Tech UG will come out and share in the @SDVeclipse Rust SIG about work he's done on Rust 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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"we still talk about you" meme depicting my nearly depleted codex usage for the week

ALT "we still talk about you" meme depicting my nearly depleted codex usage for the week
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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
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the @SDVeclipse 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
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props to Stefan Akatyschew for the work he did on mapping out how ready Rust is for automotive (ISO 26262)
Home page of AreWeSafetyCriticalYet.org showing a readiness mapping for Automotive (ISO 26262) is now available

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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 @SDVeclipse 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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the new uniqlo drop got me choked up ;-; respect to Togashi Yoshihiro-san for HUNTERร—HUNTER; keep healing and writing if/when you're able
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the dice i had made for the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium were a fun time to hand out at @RustNationUK 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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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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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 Florian Gilcher of @FerrousSystems
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check out the playlist of other interviews we've conducted so far: piped.video/watch?v=r7i-2wHtโ€ฆ

Jan David Nose Interview, Rust Infrastructure Team [Rust Project Content @ RustConf 2025]

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Writing a Linux GPU Kernel Driver in Rust with Daniel Almeida

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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 โœŒ๏ธ
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thanks to Daniel Silverstone of @codethink for coming out to share C <=> Rust gaps when it comes to high-assurance and safety-critical at the @SDVeclipse Rust Special Interest Group
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in ~23 hours see the work that Daniel Silverstone from @codethink has done in C <=> Rust gap analysis at the @SDVeclipse 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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