Rust Language Official Support

[jebolivarg]

Hello,

Is an official Rust support on nRf MCUs? or it is planned to officially support on the future?

Is it any BLE softdevice Rust compatible that is certified for production?

Thanks, and regards.

Julian

[Jared]

Hi,

Rust is not officially supported by Nordic.

Questions regarding future roadmap needs to be directed to your Nordic sales representative. 

regards

Jared

[martin_nl]

Hi Nordic team,

I'd like to add another perspective to this discussion.

Over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in using Rust for embedded development, and one of the reasons Nordic devices continue to be attractive to me is the excellent support provided by the community-maintained Embassy ecosystem.

While nRF Connect SDK and Zephyr are powerful platforms, I think there is also growing demand for a Rust-based workflow, especially among developers working on long-lived products and in industries where reliability, security, and maintainability are major concerns.

From my perspective, official Rust support would make sense for several reasons:

• Rust continues to gain adoption in embedded systems and is increasingly being considered for commercial products.
• The embassy-nrf project has already demonstrated strong community interest in using Nordic hardware with Rust.
• Rust's type system and ownership model help eliminate entire classes of bugs at compile time, which is particularly valuable in safety-critical and regulated environments.
• Embassy's async/await model provides a modern alternative to traditional RTOS-based designs and can result in code that is easier to reason about and maintain.
• Official support would give companies additional confidence when selecting Nordic devices for new commercial products.

By "official support" I don't necessarily mean replacing Zephyr or making Embassy the primary SDK. Even relatively small steps could add significant value:

• Official examples for Nordic development kits using Embassy
• Documentation for common Nordic peripherals in Rust
• CI testing of Nordic devices against Embassy releases
• Engineering collaboration with the Embassy maintainers
• Early access to device information needed to support new Nordic SoCs

As someone working on products with long maintenance lifetimes, the combination of Nordic hardware, Rust, and Embassy is extremely compelling. Official support from Nordic would significantly increase my confidence in selecting this stack for future projects.

I'd be interested to hear whether Nordic has considered deeper collaboration with the Embassy project or whether there are any plans in this area.

[Sam D]

Hi Martin have you seen this: docs.embassy.dev/.../index.html