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This Week in Rust 609
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The rustwasm GitHub organization will be archived in September 2025, with wasm-bindgen being transferred to a new organization and other repositories being archived or transferred to maintainers.
Newsletters
The Embedded Rustacean Issue #50 www.theembeddedrustacean.com
Stay updated on the latest in embedded Rust with news, articles, tutorials, and job opportunities in the field.
Bioinformatics in Rust #1 dawnandrew100.github.io
A monthly bioinformatics newsletter featuring crate spotlights, research highlights on drug targets for hyperaldosteronism, and a sequence analysis challenge using strobemers in Rust.
Project/Tooling Updates
An overview of recent advancements in Rust's core features, including try blocks, const-generic inference, and progress updates on GSoC student projects.
An update on the gix project's progress, covering improvements in release handling, pseudo-refs, RefTable support, tag listing, SSH transport, zlib-rs integration, and Cargo package changes.
`npm` generates inconsistent `package-lock.json` files when platform-specific optional dependencies are involved, leading to missing dependencies on different machines and a failure to warn about inconsistencies.
A performance update on the Rust Clippy linter, detailing improvements, future plans, and the author's dedication to making Clippy faster.
This article provides an overview of the Rust bindings used in the Linux kernel, focusing on memory allocation, self-referential structures, and lock management, with code examples.
CUDA, Vulkan, and Wgpu execution models compared.
Tako is a new, lightweight, and extensible Rust web framework built on Tokio and Hyper, designed for simplicity, performance, and modern web service development.
This article introduces stochastic-rs, a high-performance Rust library for simulating and analyzing stochastic processes, with a focus on quantitative finance and fractional Brownian motion.
This article introduces StackSafe, a Rust crate that prevents stack overflows in recursive functions and data structures by automatically growing the stack.
Observations/Thoughts
This blog post discusses a workaround for the lack of specialization in stable Rust by using function pointers to conditionally implement different behaviors for read-only and read-write filesystems.
This article argues that Rust's borrowchecker causes ergonomic problems and its role in safety is overstated, suggesting that its restrictions often lead to unnecessary complications and don't always prevent real-world bugs.
This article discusses an optimization technique used in the DDP Router, where nested closures in JavaScript are replaced with reified structs in Rust for improved performance and inspectability.
Figma optimizes file load times and memory efficiency using Rust, switching from BTreeMap to a sorted vector for node representation.
This article provides a step-by-step breakdown of a simple SQL query execution plan.
This article describes how to refactor Rust tests to improve robustness, avoid repetition, and enhance code organization using constants, shared initialization, and external crates.
Rust Walkthroughs
This article describes how to implement structured logging in Rust for Google Cloud Platform using the tracing and tracing-subscriber crates, including how to add trace IDs to correlate log entries.