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This Week in Rust 667
Official
Announcing rustup 1.29.1 blog.rust-lang.org
Rustup 1.29.1 introduces concurrent installation operations, local HTTP documentation hosting, and updated host support.
The Rust Leadership Council has initiated the 2026 election process for two Project Director seats on the Rust Foundation Board.
An update on the Rust project's strategic goals, infrastructure improvements, and recent developments in Rust for Linux.
Foundation
An exploration of how the Rust standard library verification contest successfully scaled formal verification beyond manual proof engineering.
The Rust Foundation announces the appointment of Tomas Sedovic as the new Rust Program Manager.
The Rust Foundation welcomes Jess Izen as its new Engineer-in-Residence.
Newsletters
The Embedded Rustacean Issue #79 www.theembeddedrustacean.com
A comprehensive roundup of the latest news, tutorials, and community updates within the embedded Rust ecosystem.
Project/Tooling Updates
A performance comparison of various interpreter dispatch techniques for Rust-based VMs and their associated crate features.
An overview of how optimizing trait implementation inlining and filtering logic resulted in a 33% performance increase for Rustdoc.
Observations/Thoughts
Analysis of whether Cargo's build scheduling can be optimized using b-level heuristics based on task duration estimates.
An inside look at the challenges and strategies of developing the world's first IEC 61508-certified embedded system using Rust and Ferrocene on bare-metal hardware.
A case study on optimizing Rust-based DNS cache memory usage, resulting in a 56% footprint reduction and improved performance across a massive fleet.
A technical exploration of building a deterministic virtual machine in Rust that integrates an LLM as a native primitive.
Technical talk on addressing deadlocks in Rust's AsyncIterator trait by proposing a new `poll_progress` method.
Rust Walkthroughs
This article details the implementation of the `rnull` block driver in Rust, demonstrating how to build kernel block devices using the latest Rust abstractions and comparing them to their C counterparts.
A practical, step-by-step tutorial on building a desktop UI clone with Rust’s GPUI framework, focusing on component composition, layout, and styling.
A practical, step-by-step tutorial on building a basic CPU emulator in Rust to restore a malfunctioning space probe.
Debugging a memory allocation stack trace originating from wgpu texture creation within a tokio-based actor pipeline.
An exploration of using property-based testing in Rust to ensure the absolute correctness of a pediatric drug dosing calculator.
A practical guide to implementing custom UI elements in GPUI by utilizing the PathBuilder API for rendering basic geometric shapes.
Pinning Down Rust’s Pin gmcgoldr.github.io
An overview of move semantics and the potential implications of memory addresses in Rust.
Research
Miscellaneous
An overview of Canonical’s strategic, incremental transition of core Ubuntu system components to Rust to improve memory safety and long-term maintainability.