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Image: "Never use an unsafe block in rust. Just write C since its unsafe by default! "
Image: Syn 3.0.0 released >> This release updates the Rust syntax tree for 3+ years of language evolution, adds support for many new features, and introduces several breaking changes including new Modifiers types.
Image: Securing the Rust Project Infrastructure with Hardware Security Keys >> The Rust Foundation now mandates hardware security keys (YubiKeys) as default for critical infrastructure access, significantly hardening the project’s security. #rustlang #rust
Image: "1.97.1 slander " #rust #rustlang
Image: Announcing Rust 1.97.1 >> It fixes a nasty LLVM miscompilation that’s been lurking since 1.87. #rust #rustlang
Image: Now that Rust v1.97.0 is out! #rustlang #rust
Image: Maintainer spotlight: Gen Li (@rami3l) >> Gen Li (@rami3l), Rustup team lead since 2025, shares his 4-year Rust journey, tooling passion, maintenance work, GSoC mentoring, and open-source insights. #rustlang #rust
Image: Top (C): "Free with use-after-free bugs" Bottom (Rust): "Free from use-after-free bugs"
Image: Welcoming Wild to the Rust Innovation Lab >> Rust Innovation Lab welcomes Wild, a fast Rust-written linker for Linux (with more OSes planned), to speed up build times and iteration. #rustlang #rust
Image: Announcing Rust 1.96.1 >> Rust 1.96.1 fixes Cargo HTTP retries/timeouts, a MIR miscompilation, and three libssh2 CVEs. #rustlang #rust
Image: News: std::io::Error now on nightly >> std::io::Error in core (nightly) unlocks Read/Write for no_std, letting embedded crates use major ecosystem libraries without custom errors. #rust #rustlang
Image: Why? #rustlang #rust
Image: The many journeys of learning Rust >> Rust learning journeys vary widely — from borrow checker struggles and unlearning habits to LLMs and community support. Key insights on improving resources and reducing silent attrition. #rustlang #rust
Image: How we found a bug in the hyper HTTP library >> Cloudflare found a race condition in Rust's hyper library causing truncated large image responses over sockets; fixed with a flush before shutdown.
Image: JUST IN: Zed v1.8 is out! >> This release adds sidebar worktree creation, agent terminal init commands, pane size reset, and delimiter selection tools, plus major AI, Git, and performance improvements. #rust #rustlang
Image: Rust Commercial Network Launches to Bring Commercial Users of Rust Language Together >> Rust Foundation launched the Rust Commercial Network (RCN) to help companies collaborate on Rust adoption, solve production issues, and support the project.
Image: JUST IN: Slint 1.17 Released >> Slint 1.17 adds drag-and-drop, system tray icons, tooltips, and two-way model bindings, making major progress toward full desktop readiness.
Image: LiteLLM is migrating to Rust for a sub-1ms overhead, sub-100MB gateway with 15x throughput and 11x less memory, with no breaking changes. #rust #rustlang
Image: The unreasonable effectiveness of LLMs for auditing Rust code >> GPT-5.5 excels at auditing Rust code, uncovering dozens of memory safety bugs in unsafe sections of popular crates, verified via Miri. #rustlang #rust
Image: Rust Foundation Member Announcement: Integer 32, Convex, Renesas, Peeriot, & Processing Foundation #rustlang #rust
Image: ClickHouse is integrating Rust into its massive C++ codebase. The episode discusses the real-world challenges, tradeoffs, and lessons from mixing the two languages. #rustlang #rust
Image: resource usage #rustlang #rust
Image: Good read for the weekend! Fearless Embedded Rust: Driving a Lego Car with a Pico W #rustlang #rust
Image: JUST IN: Leptos's creator is stepping down as an active developer on the framework. #rustlang #rust
Image: Alyze is a high-performance Rust library for UAX #29 tokenization and full-text analysis (lowercasing, stemming, stopwords) using DFA. #rustlang #rust
image: Nub is an all-in-one JavaScript toolkit that augments Node.js instead of trying to replace it. the good parts? written in Rust and faster than Bun
Image: zlib-rs in Firefox >> Firefox now uses Rust’s zlib-rs for gzip, for massive speedups and memory safety, after fixing a tricky Intel Raptor Lake CPU bug. #rustlang #rust
Image: h2 v0.4.15 release! >> h2 v0.4.15 ships multiple important bug fixes for stream handling, headers, resets, and capacity polling in the Rust HTTP/2 library. #rustlang #rust
Image: JUST IN: Rust Foundation Welcomes OpenAI As Platinum Member, Announces Donation to Rust Project >> OpenAI joined the Rust Foundation as a Platinum Member with a $600,000 contribution to support maintainers, key projects, and ecosystem growth. #rustlang #rust
Image: Debian Rust Security Tracker 🩺🦀 >> Debian Rust Security Tracker shows 12 open advisories affecting 27 packages, including 2 high-severity issues in russh and russh-cryptovec. #rustlang #rust
Image: "Is it really a problem, though? " #rustlang #rust
Image: How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++ >> In Rust, any memory safety bug triggerable from safe code is a library soundness CVE. In C/C++, it's usually "your fault" for misusing the API. CVE counts mislead. #rustlang #rust
Image: JUST IN: A native Rust rewrite of RivetKit >> Rivet 2.3 rewrites its core runtime (RivetKit) in native Rust for better performance, adds a sleek new dashboard, and introduces fine-grained actor lifecycle controls. #rustlang #rust
Image: Deno merged a major port of console/inspect from JS to Rust, slashing 01_console.js by 83%, shrinking the snapshot, and keeping output identical. #rustlang #rust
Image: Grit: rewriting Git in Rust with agents >> AI agents rewrote Git in Rust as a memory-safe library, passing 99% of tests for embeddable, efficient tools. #rustlang #rust
Image: CDC’s 2026 Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak projections were modeled using a branching process simulator written in Rust 1.95, paired with a Python pipeline, showcasing Rust’s growing role in high-stakes epidemiological modeling. #rustlang #rust
Image: Nushell 0.113.1 is out >> Nushell 0.113.1 is a bug-fix release improving YAML output with smarter quoting, fixing idx command reliability, and restoring REPL commandline editing. #rustlang #rust
Image: All the (54) recordings from RustWeek are available on YouTube. #rustlang #rust
Image: Rust for Python Programmers: Complete Training Guide >> This official Microsoft guide teaches Rust to Python developers, covering everything from core concepts to advanced topics, culminating in a CLI capstone project. #rustlang #rust
Image: Compromised Rust crate onering performs code exfiltration >> Malicious Rust crate "onering" v1.4.1 uses a build.rs script to exfiltrate your latest git commit metadata and full source diff, disguised as Sentry telemetry. #rustlang #rust
Image: PgDog, a modern Rust-based Postgres connection pooler, load balancer, and sharder, has raised $5.5M in seed funding from Basis Set, Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, and others. #rustlang #rust image_credit: PgDog
Image: JUST IN: React Compiler's official Rust port PR has been merged into main, delivering a fast, high-fidelity implementation with OXC and SWC integrations. #rustlang #rust
Image: Ratatui 0.30.1 is out! >> This release adds Block shadows, filled Chart/Canvas areas, multi-column Tables, Fill widget, CellDiffOption, and performance improvements. #rustlang #rust
Image: Introducing Databow >> Databow is a Rust-powered CLI for querying databases through ADBC, offering interactive SQL, multi-database support, exports, and fast tabular output. #rustlang #rust
Image: Good read for the weekend ! iddqd, or the hardest kind of unsafe Rust #rustlang #rust
Image: smolvm v0.8.1 ships registry auth, OCI compatibility, proxy flags, ENTRYPOINT/CMD support, and a big batch of stability fixes. #rustlang #rust
Image: Michael Reeves released rustc_codegen_jvm >> rustc_codegen_jvm adds initial union support and major refactors for closures, call dispatch, and object constructors. Active progress toward full Rust-to-JVM bytecode compilation. #rustlang #rust
Image: Ladybird is ending public pull requests — only maintainers can now introduce code changes — to strengthen security and responsibility as the browser approaches its first alpha release. #rustlang #rust
Image: Memory safety is a matter of life and death >> Joshua (Staff Software Engineer at Google) argues that memory safety bugs will soon kill more people as AI agents unleash mass exploits. Rust is our best defense, and its success is a moral imperative. #rustlang #rust
Image: Porting our Django backend to Rust improved the infra usage by 90% >> Wasmer rewrote their 7-year Django backend in Rust, slashing infra by ~90% (220→24 CPUs, 800→64 GB RAM) with 5-10x faster queries in 3 months. #rustlang #rust
Image: JUST IN: How Josh helps Rust manage code across multiple repositories >> Rust uses Josh, a fast Rust-based git tool, to efficiently sync code between the main rust-lang/rust repo and separate tool repositories like Miri and Rust Analyzer. #rustlang #rust