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This Week in Rust 606
Official
Rust 1.88.0 introduces let chains, naked functions, boolean configuration, Cargo automatic cache cleaning, and stabilized APIs.
Submit your proposals for the Rust Project Goals program for 2025H2 by July 18th to drive improvements to Rust.
Annual survey seeking feedback on the Leadership Council's performance and effectiveness within the Rust project.
A new program manager provides an update on their first month supporting Rust project teams, improving communication, and streamlining processes.
Newsletters
Participate in the Rust-Trends coding contest on CodeCrafters this summer for a chance to win prizes and enhance your Rust skills.
Project/Tooling Updates
A conference dedicated to developers using Rust and Tokio to build asynchronous network applications is scheduled for April 20-22, 2026, in Portland, OR.
rust-analyzer Changelog #292 rust-analyzer.github.io
A list of changes, fixes, and improvements in a new release.
This discussion covers explicit type conversions (casts) in Rust, comparing them to C's implicit conversions and exploring the safety, correctness, and encouragement of casts in both languages.
Asterinas, a new Linux-ABI-compatible kernel project written in Rust, aims to combine monolithic and microkernel designs for a safer, more efficient OS.
Diesel Async 0.6.0 blog.weiznich.de
Diesel Async 0.6 released with dependency updates, bug fixes, and statement cache configuration options.
Introducing Kiorg v0.1.1, a cross-platform, Vim-inspired file manager designed for performance and customization.
This article provides a progress report on the development of rustc_codegen_cranelift, detailing achievements in unwinding, ARM CI, f16/f128 support, code sharing, SIMD, ABI handling, and outlining current challenges and contribution opportunities.
Observations/Thoughts
A report on macro expansion statistics, detailing macro names, uses, lines, and bytes.
This article introduces Leaktracer, a custom Rust allocator for tracing memory allocations, designed for easy integration and debugging in large applications.
A website is running a security check to verify browser authenticity, requiring JavaScript to proceed.
This article analyzes the performance of a Rust web server application, specifically focusing on the time spent in various functions related to image processing and initialization.
This article describes a newbie's experience contributing to the Rust for Linux project, including overcoming challenges with kernel configuration, version control, and creating safe Rust wrappers for C APIs.
This GDB backtrace shows a Rust program panicking and unwinding, originating from a user-defined panic function.
A front-end developer shares their journey of building a full-stack admin system with Rust, highlighting the benefits of using Rust for backend development, including performance, safety, and ease of deployment.
Due to sign-in requirements, I cannot summarize this YouTube page data, but the title indicates it's about the top 10 games from a Bevy Jam.
Explore the concepts of threads in Rust programming and learn how to start, stop, and communicate between them.
An inside look at how 1Password uses Rust to maintain top-notch security and user experience while managing millions of secrets.
An interview with the creator of Dioxus, a Rust framework for building cross-platform applications.
A podcast episode discussing the Malachite project, a Byzantine-fault tolerant consensus engine implemented in Rust, and the reasons for its creation.
Rust Walkthroughs
This blog post explores a Rust workaround for implementing mutually exclusive behaviors under a unified interface, using marker types and associated types to satisfy coherence rules.
Miscellaneous
A software engineer reflects on their experience using both Haskell and Rust for production code, highlighting the strengths and limitations of each language.