As we close the chapter on 2025 and celebrate our second year of 'Rust in Production', it's time to reflect on the highlights of the 17 episodes since our last holiday special. We looked at Rust from all angles, from cloud infrastructure to embedded systems, and from robotics to satellite technology. One thing that all these stories have in common is the passion and dedication of the Rust community to build faster, safer, and more reliable software.

In this special episode, we look back at some of the memorable moments from the past year and celebrate Rust's achievements. This goes beyond the case studies we've covered; it's about the Rust community as a whole and the state of the Rust ecosystem at the end of 2025.

Links from the Show:

• Code.Talks Talk - Matthias' presentation on Rust case studies
• Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025 - Rust as most admired language since 1.0 release
• Brave with Anton Lazarev (S03E07) - Rust as the go-to language
• Volvo with Julius Gustavsson (S03E08) - Empowering engineers
• Astral with Charlie Marsh (S04E03) - Welcoming community leads to huge impact
• Scythe with Andrew Tinka (S05E02) - Confidence in what you build
• Rust4Linux CVE - The first CVE in Rust for Linux
• Greg KH post - Context on kernel CVE statistics
• curl with Daniel Stenberg (S02E01) - Bug reports every three hours, code constantly changes
• curl statistics - How old code gets rewritten all the time
• Tembo with Adam Hendel (S04E05) - Software is never done
• Redis CVE-2025-49844 - Remote code execution vulnerability from use-after-free
• Canonical with John Seager (S05E05) - Ubuntu is optimistic about Rust
• Rust in Android - Memory safety vulnerabilities below 20%
• Android statistics - 3.9 billion active devices worldwide
• Roc with Richard Feldman (S05E04) - Focus on the end user
• Svix with Tom Hacohen (S04E02) - Love it, but compile times...
• Prime Video with Alexandru Ene (S05E01) - Build times need to improve
• crates.io - 200 billion crate downloads and 200k published crates
• Cloudflare with Kevin Guthrie and Edward Wang (S05E03) - Ecosystem is fantastic; thanks to all maintainers
• Rust Conferences 2026 - Complete list of upcoming Rust conferences
• CodeCrafters Course - Build your own HTTP server in Rust
• Rust Project Goals - November update on 41 active project goals
• cargo-script RFC - Run Rust scripts without full Cargo projects
• Better pin ergonomics RFC - Improving async Rust ergonomics
• KSAT with Vegard Sandengen (S04E07) - Make async better
• 1Password with Andrew Burkhart (S04E06) - Make it easier to learn Rust
• Rust Book by Brown University - Interactive learning resource for Rust
• Clippy lints - All available linter rules for Rust
• C++ and Rust interop - Safer language interoperability initiative
• Microsoft with Victor Ciura (S04E01) - C++ doesn't have to die for Rust to succeed
• BorrowSanitizer initiative - LLVM instrumentation for detecting aliasing violations
• Polonius - Next-generation borrow checker
• Rust with Niko Matsakis (S04E04) - Be excellent to each other (Bill & Ted reference)