This February In Rust

News and Announcements

• 🎈🎉 Announcing Rust 1.41.0. 🎉🎈
  • Relaxed restrictions when implementing traits!
  • cargo install now updates packages!
  • New less conflict-prone Cargo.lock format!
  • More guarantees around Box<T> in FFI!
• Announcing the Cleanup Crew ICE-breaker group.
• cargo-audit v0.11: Introducing the fix feature, yanked crate detection, and more.
• Results from Rust game development ecosystem survey.

Helpful Articles

• std.rs: go directly to stable rust docs.
• Packaging a Rust project for Debian.
• Build your own executor. Also read the previous article Build your own block_on().
• Debugging Rust in VSCode (in 2020).
• A primer to Rust Async.
• Rust for Java devs.

Tales from Production

• How Zebra used Tower to replace Zcash’s legacy Bitcoin C++ networking code with modern, async Rust.
• Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust.