Rust recap for week 7/2023

From 13/2/2023 to 19/2/2023

Articles #

• Why is building a UI in Rust so hard? 799 comments in 5 discussions

• I love building a startup in Rust. I wouldn't pick it again. 708 comments in 3 discussions

• How Rust went from a side project to the world’s most-loved programming language 575 comments in 6 discussions

• When Rust hurts 342 comments in 4 discussions

• The bottom emoji breaks rust-analyzer 328 comments in 4 discussions

• <3 Deno 302 comments in 5 discussions

• Rust vs. Haskell 291 comments in 4 discussions

• Smoke-testing Rust HTTP clients (2020) 280 comments in 4 discussions

• Examples of old (ca. 1.0.0+) Rust code that still compiles? 265 comments in 4 discussions

• Is there a Rust equivalent for Fully Homomorphic Encryption? 260 comments in 6 discussions

• C-rusted: The Advantages of Rust, in C, without the Disadvantages 243 comments in 4 discussions

• Open-sourcing Rerun: A visualization toolbox built on egui 116 comments in 5 discussions

• Returning to Nim from Python and Rust 90 comments in 1 discussion

• Writing an OS in Rust to run on RISC-V 72 comments in 1 discussion

• The Real C++ Killers (Not You, Rust) 69 comments in 2 discussions

Releases #

• Hydrofoil Generation a sailing simulator made in Rust just released on Steam! 22 comments in 1 discussion

• Himalaya, the CLI email client: v0.7.0 released 19 comments in 1 discussion

• Rerun OSS beta is released 18 comments in 1 discussion

• Test Case 3.0 has been released

Projects #

• RustPython: A Python interpreter written in Rust 690 comments in 13 discussions

• NES emulator written in Rust running on a RP Pico (264kB RAM) 106 comments in 3 discussions

• Making UI easy and performant in rust - introducing the concoct GUI framework 86 comments in 13 discussions

• Ractor: Rust actor framework 85 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: Coerce – Distributed actor framework in Rust 76 comments in 3 discussions

• Announcing allocscope: a tool for tracking allocations in Rust / C++ / C apps 49 comments in 2 discussions

• Railwind 0.1.2 - A Tailwind compiler rewritten in Rust 47 comments in 2 discussions

• pfetch-rs - A rewrite of pfetch in Rust 41 comments in 4 discussions

• Aquascope: Interactive visualizations of Rust at compile-time and run-time 27 comments in 1 discussion

• A Comprehensive list of all Rust learning material 23 comments in 2 discussions

Videos #

• Making a custom asset type and loader in Bevy

• Actix-web to Axum port: Shared mutable state and the tale of 2 Mutexes

• New episode out for my Rust+OpenGL game engine devlog! Please check it out!

• Just published Rust for starters (Learn rust basics with Ashish) on YouTube. I will be adding some bonus videos in this playlist next week.

• Rustc Contributor Ep4: MIR transformation