Rust recap for week 17/2023

From 24/4/2023 to 30/4/2023

Articles #

• Microsoft is rewriting core Windows libraries in Rust 1187 comments in 4 discussions

• 50 Shades of Rust, or emerging Rust GUIs in a WASM world 347 comments in 3 discussions

• Microsoft is to enable Rust use for Windows 11 kernel 284 comments in 2 discussions

• GCC 13 and the state of gccrs 264 comments in 3 discussions

• Bringing Memory Safety to sudo and su - with Ferrous Systems and Tweedegolf 187 comments in 4 discussions

• How does async Rust work 130 comments in 1 discussion

• Rust allows redeclaring local variables to great benefit 71 comments in 2 discussions

• Cicada - CI/CD platform written with Rust 52 comments in 4 discussions

• How Pydantic V2 leverages Rust's Superpowers - FOSDEM 2023 51 comments in 2 discussions

• Report on surprise hyper CVE from 2023-04-11 48 comments in 2 discussions

• Fish Folk's Kickstarter campaign is launching in ~1 week! Sign up now to be notified on launch <3 42 comments in 3 discussions

• ESP32-Wi-Fi-Lamp in Rust Pt 2: Connecting to Wifi! 29 comments in 1 discussion

• The case for stabilizing arbitrary_self_types 26 comments in 1 discussion

• "I tried Bevy for the first time for a game jam" by kuviman, winner of Bevy Jam #3 26 comments in 1 discussion

• Rust on Espressif chips - 28-04-2023 25 comments in 1 discussion

Releases #

• git-cliff 1.2.0 is released! (highly customizable changelog generator) 7 comments in 1 discussion

• cargo-semver-checks v0.20 and Trustfall v0.4 released — semver-check up to 2354x faster 3 comments in 1 discussion

• pest v2.6.0 released with a new meta-grammar feature (node tags)

Projects #

• Announcing erdtree v2.0.0, now with support for regex based searching, Unix file permissions, an improved UI, and more. 424 comments in 18 discussions

• RustDoom: Doom Renderer Written in Rust 204 comments in 5 discussions

• Announcing rustic - fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups powered by Rust 124 comments in 2 discussions

• pulseshitter: An overengineered workaround to Discord not supporting audio when screensharing on Linux. 70 comments in 2 discussions

• Concurrent.js supports parallel C, C++, Go and Rust execution in Node.js 68 comments in 4 discussions

• loxcraft: a compiler, language server, and online playground for the Lox programming language 32 comments in 4 discussions

• Codebase Moved to Github and Looking For "More Contributors" for the websurfx project (written in rust) 32 comments in 3 discussions

• Envio: The Secure and Modern CLI Tool To Manage Your Environment Variables 30 comments in 7 discussions

• sudo-rs: A memory safe implementation of sudo and su 30 comments in 2 discussions

• makerust: Rust, but in a Makefile 19 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Microsoft rewriting core Windows libraries in Rust 214 comments in 1 discussion

• [video] Windows 11: The journey to security by-default by David Weston 51 comments in 3 discussions

• Does anyone think I missed any categories of time? 4 comments in 1 discussion

• Rust workshop (in spanish), 19 video sessions now 3 comments in 1 discussion

• Komorebi live programming - Win11 TWM built on windows-rs - Looking for contributors! 2 comments in 1 discussion