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This Week in Rust 638
Newsletters
Provides a detailed timeline of completed and planned milestones for Rust support within GCC, covering feature integration and release targets up to GCC 16.1.
Project/Tooling Updates
Fyrox 1.0.0-rc.2 introduces comprehensive error handling, optimized UI rendering, DynType for custom scene data, and automated editor testing, focusing on stability and QoL.
Slint 1.15 introduces dynamic GridLayouts, two-way data bindings for struct fields, improved iOS/Android safe area support, and various renderer enhancements for the Rust-based GUI toolkit.
The Tyr project is driving a Rust GPU driver for Arm Mali towards upstream, highlighting critical missing Rust kernel abstractions while signaling an upcoming requirement for Rust in new Linux DRM drivers.
Rustbridge 0.9 offers a feature-complete framework for building Rust shared libraries that seamlessly interoperate with Java, Kotlin, C#, Python, or Rust applications, abstracting FFI complexities like lifecycle and async execution.
Ariel OS v0.3.0 offers upgraded Embassy/esp-hal, HAL-agnostic UART, a new sensor abstraction, structured board descriptions, and BLE support for Rust embedded development.
CipherStash Proxy 2.1.20 introduces performance diagnostics via slow statement logging and enhanced Prometheus metrics, alongside case-insensitive JSONB search capabilities for STE-VEC indexes.
Observations/Thoughts
Linux 7.0 officially concludes the "Rust experiment," signaling Rust's permanent integration into the kernel and encouraging industry investment in its adoption.
Addressing a lifetime escape error (E0521) when using `Map::contains_key` with dynamically borrowed keys and trait objects.
What's so great about Rust? bitfieldconsulting.com
This article makes a pragmatic case for Rust's adoption by covering its safety features, performance, developer experience, community, and versatility across various use cases and developer backgrounds.
Explore gRPC-Rust for safe, fast, and scalable RPC in your next microservices project, with a status update nearing beta release.
Anodized is a Rust library for code annotation with specifications, offering integration beyond typical contract tools.
Impl Rust: Avro IDL tool in Rust via LLM.
Netstack.FM explores Rust-powered networking from low-level protocols and systems programming to web standards, proxies, and observability, featuring expert interviews and crate spotlights.
Rust Walkthroughs
A future for bitflags kodraus.github.io
`bitflags` is evolving to use `bitflags-derive` for flags-aware `#[derive]`s and external integrations, simplifying the core crate without breaking changes.
Achieve sub-second hot reloading for Rust applications, like a GraphQL API, using `dioxus-devtools` and the `dx serve --hot-patch` command.
Benchmarks reveal `primitive_fixed_point_decimal` (fixed-point) often surpasses `rust_decimal` (floating-point) in performance and stability, particularly when `rust_decimal` incurs implicit rescaling overheads.
Explore lessons learned supporting FreeBSD, Nix, and Guix for a Rust CLI, including build-from-source, cross-compilation with `cargo-zigbuild`, and various Nix and Guix packaging strategies.
Learn how Rama, a modular Rust framework, offers freedom and control for building flexible and custom network services and stacks, from transport to HTTP, including unique configurations like Socks5 over TLS.
Learn to implement a multi-threaded TCP echo server from scratch using Rust's standard library.