Rust recap for week 8/2025

From 17/2/2025 to 23/2/2025

Articles #

• Linus replies to R4L controversy 920 comments in 5 discussions

• Greg KH: But for new code / drivers, writing them in Rust where these types of bugs just can't happen (or happen much much less) is a win for all of us, why wouldn't we do this? 866 comments in 3 discussions

• A practical comparison of build and test speed between C++ and Rust 772 comments in 4 discussions

• Cpp discussed as a Rust replacement for Linux Kernel 533 comments in 1 discussion

• Google's Shift to Rust Programming Cuts Android Memory Vulnerabilities by 68% 485 comments in 1 discussion

• Christoph Hellwig: "Linus in private said that he absolutely is going to merge Rust code over a maintainers objection" 371 comments in 1 discussion

• Greg KH Makes Compelling Case for New Linux Kernel Drivers to Be Written in Rust 311 comments in 3 discussions

• As the Kernel Turns: Rust in Linux saga reaches the "Linus in all-caps" phase 145 comments in 1 discussion

• Google's Shift to Rust Programming Cuts Android Memory Vulnerabilities by 68% 141 comments in 3 discussions

• Possibly one step towards named arguments in Rust (2020) 138 comments in 2 discussions

• Tokio + prctl = nasty bug 111 comments in 3 discussions

• Ring is unmaintained 102 comments in 2 discussions

• Typst 0.13 is out now 92 comments in 3 discussions

• Rust, C++, and Python trends in jobs on Hacker News (February 2025) 91 comments in 1 discussion

• Parsing JSON in 500 lines of Rust 64 comments in 2 discussions

Releases #

• Announcing Rust 1.85.0 and Rust 2024 141 comments in 3 discussions

• Emboss 0.6.0 Release 6 comments in 2 discussions

• Ohkami web framework v0.23.1 Released 4 comments in 1 discussion

• Rust 🦀 DataFrame Library Elusion v3.3.0 is released 🚀 FIXED NORMALIZATION 4 comments in 1 discussion

• First official beta of the Azure SDK for Rust released 3 comments in 1 discussion

• Chapter 7 of Rust From the Ground Up is released!

Projects #

• Tiny optimizing JIT brainfuck compiler, my first "finished" Rust project in years 28 comments in 1 discussion

• Polars querying nested fields 25 comments in 3 discussions

• TwinSong: Jupyter notebook built from scratch in Rust 20 comments in 1 discussion

• Hot Corners for Hyprland! 15 comments in 1 discussion

• GitHub - mgjm/annabella: Ada to C transpiler written in Rust 15 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Next.js back end rewrite in Rust 12 comments in 3 discussions

• I adapted the zed-101 config to home-manager with a few tweaks for Rust and Nix, I have to say as a die hard Neovim user Zed is pretty impressive! I hope some find this useful! 10 comments in 1 discussion

• Probe: A cURL-like tool with support for HTTPS, WebSocket, and TCP 7 comments in 1 discussion

• (Macroquad) Simulating the evolution of tiny neural networks. 6 comments in 1 discussion

• Huffman encoder for beginners 6 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• I made a wifi traffic visualizer to learn Rust 8 comments in 1 discussion

• Chris Biscardi: Growing little experiments (with Rust & Bevy)

• Building a 3D modelling app with Bevy