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What's New in Rust 1.62, 1.63, and 1.64 Oct 05, 2022

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Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.62, 1.63, and 1.64 releases of Rust.

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[@00:50] - Rust 1.62

[@00:58] - cargo add
[@03:37] - #[default] enum variants
[@07:36] - Thinner, faster mutexes on Linux
[@13:21] - Bare-metal x86_64 target
[@22:20] - Stabilized APIs
[@29:22] - Changelog deep-dive
- cargo -F for --features
- unaligned_references lint now warns by default
  - addr_of!

[@31:09] - Rust 1.62.1

Not much to talk about. We also didn’t talk about:

[@31:56] - Rust 1.63

[@31:56] - Scoped threads
- The Leakpocalypse issue
- Pre-Pooping Your Pants With Rust
[@40:41] - Rust ownership for raw file descriptors
- Rust I/O Safety RFC
[@43:45] - const mutex initialization
[@43:54] - Turbofish and impl Trait arguments
- Search/replace generics reference
- Rust reference for turbofish
[@52:03] - Non-lexical lifetimes migration complete
- NLL stabilization and borrowck’s future
- polonius
[@51:33] - Stabilized APIs
[@56:27] - Changelog deep-dive
- cargo --config
- cargo new test code updated
- New targets: Apple WatchOS and Nintendo 3DS
- [OsStr]::join
  - The Join trait

[@1:00:24] - Rust 1.64

[@1:00:32] - IntoFuture
- Reference in original async/await RFC
- Original IntoFuture regression
[@1:03:43] - C-compatible FFI types in core
- libc crate
- libcpocalypse
[@1:09:37] - rust-analyzer component in rustup
- rust-analyzer proxy binary added to rustup
[@1:13:19] - Cargo workspace inheritance and multi-target builds
- Inheriting attributes from the workspace
[@1:15:58] - Stabilized APIs
- Stabilization PR for ready!
[@1:18:03] - Compatibility notes
- Increasing the glibc and Linux kernel requirements
- RLS deprecation
[@1:22:33] - Other changes
- Profile-Guided Optimization
- PR landing lint for unused tuple fields
[@1:25:12] - Changelog deep-dive

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Ockam with Mrinal Wadhwa Sep 23, 2022

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Allen Wyma talks with Mrinal Wadhwa, CTO at Ockam. Allen and Mrinal talk about Ockham, a toolkit, written in Rust, to build distributed applications that provide trust across hostile networks.

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[@00:10] - Mrinal’s Introduction
[@01:01] - What is Ockam?
[@05:04] - Building Ockam from scratch and building it open source
[@10:45] - How Ockam provides security with modern data distribution
[@18:15] - The reason behind building Ockam with Rust
[@26:15] - Feedback that Ockam received from using Rust & Elixir
[@28:04] - Concerns with Rust and Elixir
[@29:38] - The most difficult part of working on Ockam
[@30:42] - Competing technologies that solve the same issues as Ockam
[@33:04] - When Ockam is not a good solution
[@35:15] - What’s next for Ockam
[@40:17] - Job opportunity with Ockam
[@41:48] - Why Ockham switched From Erlang to Elixir

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Axum with David Pedersen Sep 16, 2022

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Allen Wyma talks with David Pedersen, Core Team Member at Tokio. Allen and David talk about Axum, a web application framework written in Rust.

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[@0:40] - Introduction
[@1:13] - Why Axum is developed under the Tokio project umbrella
[@5:58] - What to expect from Axum
[@8:14] - Axum additional features
[@9:40] - Why Tokio decided to roll their own web framework
[@13:04] - Understanding Axum vs other web frameworks
[@22:16] - Testing, reviews, and feedback of the Axum framework
[@23:46] - Axum’s production readiness
[@28:57] - Semantic versioning
[@31:59] - Understanding and learning lessons from other web frameworks to improve Axum
[@34:47] - Production use cases that should use Axum
[@35:54] - David’s Rust experience vs other web frameworks
[@40:25] - Clippy
[@41:41] - Upcoming changes and roadmap for Axum
[@45:28] - Parting thoughts and how to reach out to David

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Rust at Microsoft with Nell Shamrell-Harrington Sep 09, 2022

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Allen Wyma talks with Nell Shamrell-Harrington, Member Board of Directors at Rust Foundation and Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft about Microsoft’s use of Rust, her time being involved with Rust, and also the Rust RFC process..

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[@1:30] - Nell’s Background and Introduction
[@5:31] - Rust communities all over the world
[@7:10] - Handling opinions, feedback and RFCs when making changes and updating a language
[@11:23] - What is a RFC and how does it work?
[@17:43] - Nell’s experience switching from Ruby to Rust
[@19:56] - Nell’s career background
[@24:18] - How the Rust Foundation operates
[@24:20] - Rust Foundation’s sponsorship model
[@33:08] - What Microsoft is currently working on with Rust
[@42:22] - How much Rust is going into Windows
[@44:25] - Is there a public long-term plan for Microsoft’s involvement with Rust?
[@48:02] - Parting thoughts

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Fyrox with Dmitry Stepanov Sep 02, 2022

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Allen Wyma talks with Dmitry Stepanov, creator of Fyrox. Fyrox is a feature-rich, general purpose game engine built in Rust.

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[@0:41] - Dmitry’s background and programming introduction
[@4:12] - How did Dmitry got into building game engines
[@7:39] - How Dmitry discovered Rust
[@8:57] - Dmitry’s experience so far using Rust
[@12:13] - When did Dmitry start working on Fyrox
[@15:03] - What’s the original idea of Fyrox
[@16:23] - The advantage of Fyrox over other game engines
[@22:05] - Is Fyrox production ready?
[@23:17] - Games and projects that are now using Fyrox
[@25:58] - Things need to know before using Fyrox game engine
[@30:21] - Fyrox’s monetization plan
[@31:33] - Dmitry’s upcoming features and plans for Fyrox

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Tauri with Daniel Thompson-Yvetot Jul 24, 2022

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Allen Wyma talks with Daniel Thompson-Yvetot, co-founder of Tauri. Tauri is a toolkit that helps developers make applications for the major desktop platforms using a variety of front-end frameworks.

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[@0:33] - Daniel’s introduction
[@3:38] - Tauri’s focus on safety and security
[@6:50] - Tauri’s mission to reduce their footprint
[@14:48] - How does Tauri handles features that are not supported across different platforms
[@23:56] - How does Tauri monetize to keep the project going?
[@26:16] - Why choose Tauri over other solutions?
[@28:57] - What are the tools being built with Tauri?
[@31:09] - Tyler’s programming background
[@35:11] - Tauri’s future release and features
[@38:38] - ‘Tauri Foundations’ book by Daniel Thompson-Yvetot and Lucas Nogueira
[@40:00] - Requirement on building a Tauri app
[@43:13] - Parting thoughts

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Asynchronous Rust with Tyler Mandry Jul 18, 2022

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Allen Wyma talks with Tyler Mandry, lead on Rust Async Working Group. Rust Async Working Group is focused around implementation/design of the “foundations” for Async I/O.

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[@0:10] - Async Working Group introduction
[@3:08] - Async progress over the past few years
[@5:16] - The Fuchsia operating system and its goals
[@6:19] - How much of Fushia is written in Rust?
[@8:16] - The experience of using Rust in Fuchsia so far
[@17:29] - Why are async runtimes not compatible with each other, and how might it be solved?
[@23:06] - How does the working group handle feedback?
[@25:33] - What’s the most important issue the working group is working on?
[@32:45] - Different types of async runtimes
[@34:36] - Turning synchronous into async
[@39:36] - How did Tyler go from async C++ to async Rust?
[@47:14] - Tyler’s code and documentation writing
[@54:21] - Where to connect with Tyler

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High Assurance Rust with Tiemoko Ballo Jul 08, 2022

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Allen Wyma talks with Tiemoko Ballo, author of High Assurance Rust. High Assurance Rust is a book about building performant software we can justifiably trust.

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[@0:34] - Tiemeko’s introduction
[@2:18] - Defining Safety critical and Mission critical
[@3:22] - How to develop software in Rust and have a high assurance?
[@8:21] - The lack of standardized behavior and different compilers
[@13:29] - Different approaches to assurance testing
[@14:54] - How does Rust’s memory safety work?
[@20:57] - Temporal memory
[@22:59] - What is a borrow checker and how do we know that it’s working properly?
[@28:17] - The difference between fuzz testing, property-based testing, and chaos testing
[@35:48] - Teimoko’s programming background
[@42:55] - Teimoko’s work and projects
[@46:15] - Rust’s error handling and concurrency advantages over other languages
[@49:29] - What Rust lacks in terms of guaranteeing high assurance and justifiability
[@53:17] - How to stay up to date on what’s happening in the security space.
[@54:35] - Parting thoughts

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New Rustacean with Chris Krycho Jul 01, 2022

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Allen Wyma talks with Chris Krycho, host of the now-ended New Rustacean podcast about learning the Rust programming language.

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[@1:08] - Chris’ background and introduction
[@4:33] - Chris’ current career and projects
[@12:17] - Rust and WebAssembly
[@19:35] - Chris’ podcasting plans
[@23:47] - Chris’ podcasting preparation and processes
[@36:02] - Lessons and insights coming from podcasting
[@48:08] - ZSH vs Fish
[@53:12] - Picking out potential podcast guests and making great interviews
[@57:12] - Chris’ opinion and comparison on the different programming languages
[@1:07:33] - Chris’ parting thoughts and future plans

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This Week in Rust - Issue 446 Jun 27, 2022

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Highlights from This Week in Rust - Issue 446, presented by Allen and Tim, with Nell Shamrell-Harrington, co-hosting for the first time in 2022.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

[@00:00:00] Welcome

[@00:00:10] - Introduction
[@00:00:52] - Agenda
[@00:01:27] - Interview with Nell Shamrell-Harrington about editing This Week in Rust
- [@00:06:21] Submitting an article to This week in Rust
- TWIR Github Repository github.com/rust-lang/this-week-in-rust
- TWIR Twitter account @thisweekinrust
- [@00:07:42] Call for volunteers to co-host an episode
[@00:08:38] - Quote of the week

I wrote a bespoke time-series database in Rust a few years ago, and it has had exactly one issue since I stood it up in production, and that was due to pessimistic filesystem access patterns, rather than the language. This thing is handling hundreds of thousands of inserts per second, and it’s even threaded.

Given that I’ve been programming professionally for over a decade in Python, Perl, Ruby, C, C++, Javascript, Java, and Rust, I’ll pick Rust absolutely any time that I want something running that I won’t get called at 3 AM to fix. It probably took me 5 times as long to write it as if I did it in Go or Python, but I guarantee it’s saved me 10 times as much time I would have otherwise spent triaging, debugging, and running disaster recovery.
- “Configuring uWSGI for Production Deployment” (2019) by at Peter Sperl and Ben Green from Bloomberg
- uWSGI’s max-requests and max-worker-lifetime options are intended to reduce the chance of memory leaks affecting production workloads
[@00:14:47] - Crate of the week: osmpbf

A Rust library for reading the OpenStreetMap PBF file format (*.osm.pbf). It strives to offer the best performance using parallelization and lazy-decoding with a simple interface while also exposing iterators for items of every level in a PBF file.
- OpenStreetMap
- Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT OSM)

[@00:16:40] Official Notices

[@00:16:43] - Rust Compiler June 2022 Steering Cycle

[@00:21:24] Highlights

[@00:21:51] (async) Rust doesn’t have to be hard
- Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
- Stack Overflow Developer Survey: Most loved programming language
[@00:28:28] clippy book
[@00:29:40] Rolling co-lead roles for T-compiler
[@00:36:33] Hyper vs Rocket - Low Level vs Batteries included
- Rust is surprisingly expressive (2013) by Steve Klabnik
[@00:40:00] Macro Patterns - A match made in heaven by Conrad Ludgate
[@00:41:11] Web Scraping with Rust by Gints Dreimanis
- Hyper with Sean McArthur
[@00:44:09] Trivia About Rust Types: An (Authorized) Transcription of Jon Gjengset’s Twitter Thread by Jimmy Hartzell
[@00:46:01] Rust language’s explosive popularity comes with challenges by Ed Targett
- “A proactive approach to more secure code” (2019) by Microsoft Security Response Center
- Project Zero team at Google
- [audio] Rust Foundation with Rebecca Rumbul

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[@00:50] - Rust 1.62

[@31:09] - Rust 1.62.1

[@31:56] - Rust 1.63

[@1:00:24] - Rust 1.64

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[@00:21:24] Highlights

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