TWiR with AI summaries

This Week in Rust 601
Official
April Project Goals Update blog.rust-lang.org
An update on the implementation of MetaSized bounds in Rust, including resolved feedback, a crater run, and ongoing efforts to address performance regressions.
The Rust project is demoting i686-pc-windows-gnu to Tier 2 due to lack of maintainers and expertise, potentially leading to more bugs, but builds will still be distributed.
Foundation
Exploring the hurdles and opportunities in expanding involvement with the Rust programming language.
Project/Tooling Updates
gitoxide May 2025 github.com
A maintainer discusses RustConf participation, precious files becoming opt-in, round-tripping for author and committer in commits, gix blame improvements, and gix integration in Cargo.
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Introducing Roto, a statically typed, JIT compiled, hot-reloadable, embedded scripting language for Rust applications, designed for speed, type safety, and ease of use.
Create lightweight, Alpine-based Docker images for cross-compiling Rust projects to Linux, macOS, and Windows across multiple architectures.
Taskfinder 2.9.0 codeberg.org
This is a changelog for a task management application, detailing added, changed, and fixed features across multiple versions.
This blog post announces the second alpha release of Yelken, a next-generation CMS, highlighting new features like Rest API additions, migration of the admin panel to SolidJS, a browser-based playground, and the foundations of Yelken Cloud.
First look at Blinksy blog.mikey.nz
Discover Blinksy, a no-std, no-alloc Rust library for controlling LEDs in 1D, 2D, and soon 3D spatial layouts, offering a modern development experience with support for common LED chipsets and visual patterns.
Malai introduces new features for sharing local TCP servers and folders, simplifying remote access and collaboration.
Observations/Thoughts
iOS file sharing relies on URL schemes to trigger apps.
Open-source Rust crate Sguaba simplifies handling coordinate systems and transformations for engineers, preventing common errors with strong typing and extensive documentation.
This article details performance improvements to the rav1d video decoder by comparing it to dav1d using profiling and addressing inefficiencies like unnecessary buffer zeroing and suboptimal equality checks.
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Benchmarking parallel reduction performance with different threading libraries.
Rust 2024 edition introduces significant updates to ownership, Unsafe Rust, and slices, enhancing development ergonomics and security.
Explore type-level bounded recursion in Rust, pushing the boundaries of its type system.
This article explores techniques for sending non-Send types across threads in Rust, emphasizing testability and dependency inversion for better code design.
This video shows how to code Flappy Bird in Bevy, a Rust-powered game engine, with hot-reloading for faster development.
Rust Walkthroughs
This article explores memory performance and latency in Rust, covering topics like cache lines, stack vs heap allocation, memory alignment, global allocators, and the use of crates like smallvec and smallstr for optimization.
Miscellaneous
This article explores how to introduce Rust into your current company, highlighting successful strategies, company profiles, and key indicators of openness to adoption.