Rust recap for week 23/2023

From 5/6/2023 to 11/6/2023

Articles #

• The Rust I Wanted Had No Future 910 comments in 5 discussions

• Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learning 644 comments in 7 discussions

• Found a language in development called Vale which claims to be the safest AOT compiled language in the World (Claims to beSafer than Rust) 324 comments in 5 discussions

• Rust criticism from a Rustacean 233 comments in 2 discussions

• Effective Rust 221 comments in 2 discussions

• 10~17x faster than what? A performance analysis of Intel' x86-simd-sort (AVX-512) 217 comments in 4 discussions

• Google DeepMind has trained a reinforcement learning agent called AlphaDev to find better sorting routines. It has discovered small sorting algorithms from scratch that outperform previously known human benchmarks and have now been integrated into the LLVM standard C++ sort library. 201 comments in 6 discussions

• Rust Module System Encourages Bad Practices [Dmitry Frank] 176 comments in 3 discussions

• Wgpu Questions: Vertex Buffers 72 comments in 9 discussions

• Iterating on Testing in Rust 70 comments in 2 discussions

• Fyrox Game Engine 0.30 47 comments in 1 discussion

• Letlang — Roadblocks and how to overcome them - My programming language targeting Rust 47 comments in 3 discussions

• PDF Slides: Rust for "modern" C++ devs 40 comments in 2 discussions

• Ezno's checker (Rust based type checker and compiler) is now open source 35 comments in 4 discussions

• Rust to Assembly: Understanding the Inner Workings of Rust 17 comments in 3 discussions

Releases #

• FreeCodeCamp just released a 13 hour "Learn Rust" video on youtube. 23 comments in 1 discussion

• Announcing the release of SPAIK LISP version 0.3 12 comments in 2 discussions

• Just published the first release of MOBOT, a Telegram Bot Framework in Rust 4 comments in 1 discussion

• Pulsar v0.6.0 Release - Rewritten rules engine and added cgroup based filtering

• A simplified version of rust-embed for single files instead of folders. Embeds files content into the binary in release mode, but loads it from the fs in debug.

• I just released version 0.4.0 of my first ever crate

Projects #

• Open source Elasticsearch alternative in Rust for logs. 140x lower storage cost 195 comments in 5 discussions

• HVM: A massively parallel, optimal functional runtime in Rust 101 comments in 4 discussions

• Makima: bind your controller's buttons to key sequences and macros, written in Rust! 73 comments in 5 discussions

• Rust in the wild: the firmware of Framework Laptop 16' firmware written in rust. 35 comments in 1 discussion

• 🦎 gecs v0.1: A compile-time generated entity component system 27 comments in 2 discussions

• Pgvecto.rs: Vector database plugin for Postgres in Rust 14 comments in 2 discussions

• Hydroflow: Dataflow Runtime in Rust 14 comments in 1 discussion

• Announcing the new async-hal! Featuring embedded IO traits and new interrupt-based executor 12 comments in 1 discussion

• LISP Runtime written from scratch in safe Rust 9 comments in 1 discussion

• Motus, a dead simple command-line password generator 7 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Rust Features that I Want in C++ - David Sankel - CppNow 2022 48 comments in 3 discussions

• Xilem Vector Graphics (video of meetup talk) 21 comments in 2 discussions

• Real-Time Noise Suppression for PipeWire writen in Rust 16 comments in 1 discussion

• 3D Graphics from scratch in rust 2 comments in 1 discussion

• 3D graphics from scratch - Part 2 (cross platform)