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This Week in Rust 600
Official
Rust 1.87.0 introduces anonymous pipes, safe architecture intrinsics, asm! jumps to Rust code, precise capturing in impl Trait, stabilized APIs, and removes the i586-pc-windows-msvc target.
Foundation
A decade of Rust is celebrated with a new graphic of Ferris the crab, and an interview with its creator, Karen Rustad Tölva, discussing the mascot's origins and impact.
Project/Tooling Updates
This article explores the design pattern of using a hypervisor as a library to integrate Linux compatibility into a new operating system, offering flexibility and performance benefits.
Observations/Thoughts
Rust turns 10 smallcultfollowing.com
A retrospective on Rust's 10th anniversary reflects on its goals, open-source culture, and impact across industries.
A reflection on the 10th anniversary of Rust 1.0 and its evolution from a hobbyist language to a professional tool.
A Reddit user analyzes the evolution of Rust compiler error messages from version 1.0.0 onwards, highlighting improvements and interesting changes over time.
For your eyes only bitfieldconsulting.com
This article discusses how to improve error handling in Rust programs, focusing on providing informative error messages to users and ensuring the program behaves robustly in unexpected situations.
Disabling debuginfo in Rust's Cargo.toml can significantly speed up incremental rebuilds, though it may impact debugging capabilities.
This article compares async/await and the calloop model for asynchronous programming in Rust, discussing their strengths, weaknesses, and suitability for different use cases, particularly in networking and GUI applications.
An interview with Astral's CEO, Charlie Marsh, discussing the company's mission to improve the Python ecosystem with high-performance tools built in Rust, like Ruff and uv.
Rust Walkthroughs
Explore Tokio's lesser-known features like current-thread runtimes, seeded runtimes, and paused clocks for enhanced testing and task management in asynchronous Rust.
This article explores solutions in Rust for joining multiple threads immediately as they finish, similar to Python's `concurrent.futures.as_completed`, including handling potential panics and comparing different approaches.
This video is about Rust programming, memory performance, and latency, but viewers are advised to watch the 4K version instead due to processing issues.
Miscellaneous
An interview with Scanner's CTO, Steven Wu, discussing their petabyte-scale log search and analysis tool, Scanner, its architecture, optimizations, and the company's journey, culture, and tech stack, highlighting its speed and cost advantages over traditional solutions like Splunk.
A $20,000 bounty is offered for improving the performance of the Rust-based rav1d AV1 decoder to match or exceed the speed of its C-based counterpart, dav1d.
A C# developer chronicles their 6-week journey learning Rust, comparing concepts and sharing daily lessons.