This June in Rust

News and Announcements

Actix Web 1.0 - One of the most mature of Rust’s web server frameworks has made a commitment to stability!
5 Years of Gfx-rs - Gfx-rs continues to be the biggest player in the Rust graphics story. This article is a brief summary of how gfx-rs has progressed since its inception 5 years ago.

Auth Web Microservice with rust using Actix-Web 1.0 - This tutorial is a great introduction to using Actix 1.0 and building an auth service is a good thing to be familiar with.
Unsafe Code Guidelines Reference - Relevant to last month’s talk, currently only has detailed info on data layout in Rust.
Can you store range patterns as const? - An interesting discussion on using const RangeInclusives
Functional Reactive Programming in Rust - An interesting discussion about the various Rust libraries that support FRP and how they compare to FRP libs in other languages.

Vimeo Introduces Support for AV1 - To support AV1, Vimeo now relies on a video encoder written in Rust.
Libra (Facebook’s new cryptocurrency) uses Rust - Regardless of how you feel about cryptocurrency or Facebook, when a FAANG company chooses Rust, Rustaceans everywhere are sure to benefit. Their coding guidelines are definitely worth imitating.

Evoli - The Amethyst team put together a showcase game to give devs a sense of what Amethyst is good at. It’s completely open-source and intended to be a good starting point for people interested in contributing.
Rust Analyzer - It’s getting pretty good. Unfortunately, It requires building from source. Still, it’s worth trying out.
Nannou - A framework for audiovisual projects. It looks really cool and I’m very excited to try it out (Requires Vulkan, I couldn’t get it to run on MacOS.)