This October In Rust

News and Announcements

🎈🎉 Announcing Rust 1.38.0. 🎉🎈
- Pipelined compilation!
- Linting incorrect usage of mem::uninitialized and mem::zeroed!
- Mark macros #[deprecated]!
- Use std::any::type_name for a debug-only way to get the name of a type!
- … and more!
Announcing Rustup 1.20.0
- Support for different install profiles.
- Only install latest compatible nightly.
- Improvements to rustup doc.
Security advisory for Cargo - Rust 1.0 - 1.25 are vulnerable to malicious crate name squatting that exploits a newer Cargo feature not present in those older versions. If you’re using this version of Rust, update to the latest version to avoid this issue!
async/await hits beta!
Announcing the “Inside Rust” Blog - A new blog with more regular updates on the internal goings-on in Rust’s development.

Accurate mental model for Rust’s reference types - Discusses how it’s more accurate to look at &T and &mut T in terms of sharing rather than mutability, despite the way that the types are named.
My favorite Rust function - Ever wondered how mem::drop is implemented?
Debugging Rust code in CLion
The node experiment - exploring async basics with Rust - Curious about what “async” is and how it works? Got lots of time on your hands? This is a deep dive into the topic for those who really want to understand it better.
Migrating a crate from futures 0.1 to 0.3

Causal Profiling Rust Code - Causal profiling is a relatively new technique for profiling how optimzations impact an application’s runtime as a whole.
Designing a COM library for Rust - Another update from the MSRC on using Rust for secure systems-level software development.
Making the Tokio scheduler 10x faster - A super interesting look into some recent optimizations to the Tokio runtime.