Rust recap for week 6/2025

From 3/2/2025 to 9/2/2025

Articles #

• Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux Kernel 1855 comments in 6 discussions

• Zig; what I think after months of using it 555 comments in 5 discussions

• Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig 439 comments in 5 discussions

• Resistance to Rust abstractions for DMA mapping 371 comments in 5 discussions

• How Rust is quietly taking over the Python ecosystem 364 comments in 1 discussion

• Carbon is not a programming language (sort of) 292 comments in 6 discussions

• Hector Martin: "Behold, a Linux maintainer openly admitting to attempting to sabotage the entire Rust for Linux project" 260 comments in 2 discussions

• ACM: It Is Time to Standardize Principles and Practices for Software Memory Safety 238 comments in 5 discussions

• No-Panic Rust: A Nice Technique for Systems Programming 224 comments in 4 discussions

• Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations 184 comments in 2 discussions

• Fat Rand: How Many Lines Do You Need To Generate A Random Number? 140 comments in 3 discussions

• Writing a Simple Driver in Rust 126 comments in 2 discussions

• Rust kernel policy 76 comments in 2 discussions

• Rust First Impressions: Error Handling 55 comments in 1 discussion

• std isn't dependency free 53 comments in 1 discussion

Releases #

• 🚀 Announcing release 0.15.0 of Polaris, a self-hosted music streaming server in Rust 124 comments in 6 discussions

• Fyrox Game Engine 0.36 - The largest release in history of the engine so far. The next release will be Fyrox 1.0 44 comments in 2 discussions

• Making a key-value store faster by replacing Arc<[u8]> - fjall 2.6.0 release 26 comments in 1 discussion

• I release Beta of my code editor Gladius 11 comments in 2 discussions

• derive_more 2.0.0 - The first release is never perfect 8 comments in 1 discussion

• Released dom_smoothie 0.5.0: A Rust crate for extracting readable content from web pages 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Fyrox v0.36 (game engine in Rust) New Release

Projects #

• Rust derive-based argument parsing optimized for code size 60 comments in 1 discussion

• Tokei: Count your code, quickly – CLOC in Rust 18 comments in 1 discussion

• Is Rust Ready for Backend Development? My Authentication Benchmarking Surprise 🚀🔍 10 comments in 1 discussion

• Filipe - a new high level interpreted language powered by Rust 10 comments in 1 discussion

• Announcing Sage: Self-hosted voice chat with LLMs using Rust 10 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: Tuono – Fullstack web framework based on ReactJS and Rust 10 comments in 2 discussions

• Make a website using markdown with Rust 7 comments in 1 discussion

• GitHub - cesarferreira/rustycat: Modern android logcat viewer (built with rust) 6 comments in 1 discussion

• Learning more about memory management in rust 6 comments in 1 discussion

• Rust based Decentralized Library 5 comments in 2 discussions

Videos #

• The case for sans-io 48 comments in 2 discussions

• Safety in an Unsafe World 17 comments in 1 discussion

• Comprehending Proc Macros 9 comments in 1 discussion

• What the f*** is reflection? 8 comments in 1 discussion

• Building an unlimited, free file transfer app using iroh (peer-to-peer networking crate) 7 comments in 1 discussion

• I found some nice new features in Helix v25 and some useful key bindings so I'm sharing them here! 6 comments in 1 discussion

• Creating a TigerBeetle client in Rust 4 comments in 1 discussion