Rust recap for week 5/2023

From 30/1/2023 to 5/2/2023

Articles #

• Why Go and not Rust? (2019) 1294 comments in 10 discussions

• Rust's Ugly Syntax 927 comments in 5 discussions

• Rewrite it in Rust 772 comments in 5 discussions

• News: More On COSMIC DE To Kick Off 2023! 574 comments in 3 discussions

• "My Reaction to Dr. Stroustrup’s Recent Memory Safety Comments" 489 comments in 2 discussions

• Undefined behavior, and the Sledgehammer Principle 423 comments in 8 discussions

• How Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't - Faultlore 334 comments in 5 discussions

• Improving Rust compile times to enable adoption of memory safety 260 comments in 2 discussions

• Announcing Masonry 0.1, and my vision for Rust UI 209 comments in 3 discussions

• About Safety, Security and yes, C++ and Rust 145 comments in 3 discussions

• Consumer Reports explicitly argues for Rust, publishing a detailed report encouraging widespread adoption of memory-safe languages and education about memory-safety risks 137 comments in 2 discussions

• Sustainability of crates.io and docs.rs 135 comments in 3 discussions

• 40x Faster! We rewrote our project with Rust! 114 comments in 1 discussion

• Automerge 2.0, CRDTs, and Local-first Software 104 comments in 5 discussions

• Towards a modern Web stack (by Ian Hickson, author of the HTML5 spec and current Flutter tech lead) 101 comments in 6 discussions

Releases #

• Released v1.0 of Erdtree, a modern variant of the ancient tree command 424 comments in 18 discussions

• Release Engineering Is Exhausting So Here's cargo-dist 108 comments in 2 discussions

• Released a new version of Notan, a SDL-like library made in rust 34 comments in 2 discussions

• lz4_flex (fast LZ4 de/compression) 0.10 released, now with legacy frame support ~ also 1Mio downloads 🎉 30 comments in 2 discussions

• Lemmy Release v0.17.0 - a federated reddit alternative written in Rust 9 comments in 2 discussions

• Blaze 0.1.0 released! The rustified OpenCL experience now has a new event system! 3 comments in 1 discussion

• utils_atomics v0.5.0 released! With a new once channel! 3 comments in 1 discussion

• Arti 1.1.1 is released: Groundwork for onion services | Tor Project 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Angulus - unit agnostic angle - release 0.3

Projects #

• Glidesort, a new stable sort in Rust up to ~4x faster for random data 162 comments in 3 discussions

• Announcing concoct! A cross-platform native UI framework (formerly viewbuilder) 86 comments in 13 discussions

• Show HN: TunnlTo – Windows WireGuard split tunnel client built with Rust, Tauri 45 comments in 1 discussion

• I created a chess png to gif converter in rust 23 comments in 1 discussion

• A Rust hyper/tower load shedding service based on Little’s Law 22 comments in 2 discussions

• [v0.1.0 support node 18] napi-nanoid: The NAPI nanoid written in Rust 21 comments in 2 discussions

• I wrote a typing trainer in pure Rust + WASM 12 comments in 2 discussions

• icu4x: pure rust implementation of the unicode ICU library 12 comments in 2 discussions

• I made a library to parse human readable numbers list (e.g. `1:10,15:20`) into an iterator, this is my first time making a rust library and I wanted to learn better about generics and packaging. Please provide me with feedback. 10 comments in 1 discussion

• NBT-Rust: The Rust Library for Serializing and Deserializing Minecraft NBT Files 9 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Pretty Markdown rendering in the Terminal with Glow! (3mn) 18 comments in 4 discussions

• A video on how to use plugins in bevy 15 comments in 2 discussions

• Spacecraft - Development showcase #2 - Enjoy! 12 comments in 1 discussion

• I made a this robot programming game with Rust + Wasm 6 comments in 1 discussion

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