A Cautionary Tale of Hermits, Thread Messaging, and Async Traits

In this episode I'll talk about an engineer's dream to rewrite Rust and why, Linus's response to the Kernel controversy, my own post about choosing between Rust and Go, Google's encouraging post about memory-safety's long-term effect on vulnerabilities, reflection on Rust after a year in production, and more! 00:00 - Intro 03:09 - Rewriting Rust 22:22 - Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust vs C for Linux debate 27:11 - Rust vs Go - Which Is Right For My Team? 48:08 - Bevy Foundation is now a 501c3 Public Charity 50:14 - Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source 55:20 - WebAssembly targets - change in default target-features 58:16 - One year of Rust in production 1:09:00 - Rust LLM Frameworks have a Bright Future Rewriting Rust https://josephg.com/blog/rewriting-rust/ Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust vs C for Linux debate https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/19/torvalds_talks_rust_in_linux Rust vs Go - Which Is Right For My Team? https://commerce.nearform.com/blog/2024/rust-vs-go-which-is-right-for-my-team Bevy Foundation is now a 501c3 Public Charity https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-foundation-501c3/ Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-safety-vulnerabilities-Android.html?m=1 WebAssembly targets - change in default target-features https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/09/24/webassembly-targets-change-in-default-target-features.html One year of Rust in production https://yieldcode.blog/post/one-year-of-rust-in-production/ Rust LLM Frameworks have a Bright Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIFUnYNuYbc Find out more about the show: https://deterministic.dev/rust-review Find me on Fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/@bkonkle Find me at Nearform Commerce: https://commerce.nearform.com Find me on Discord in the Rust, Go, and Denver Devs communities Find out more about Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org

In this week's episode I'll talk about the Rust Linux Kernel developer that stepped down a week ago, what's coming up at RustConf in Montreal, templating in Rust with MiniJinja, Arenas, TRACTORs, other podcasts, and more! 00:00 - Intro 01:58 - Rust Maintainer For Linux Kernel Resigns 14:08 - What's in Store at RustConf 2024 16:57 - MiniJinja - Templating in Rust 22:58 - Why you might not want to build a server in Rust 34:40 - Arenas 39:48 - DARPA's TRACTOR pull 48:32 - Amazing Rust podcasts 51:50 - Outro Rust Maintainer For Linux Kernel Resigns https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Linux-Maintainer-Step-Down Linux subreddit discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1f3q0l8/one_of_the_rust_linux_kernel_maintainers_steps/ Rust subreddit discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1f3scn1/one_of_the_rust_linux_kernel_maintainers_steps/ What's in Store at RustConf 2024 https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/what-s-in-store-at-rustconf-2024/ MiniJinja - Learnings from Building a Template Engine in Rust https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/8/27/minijinja/ Why Amazon, Cloudflare and Discord are building servers in Rust but you should probably not https://kerkour.com/rust-is-bad-for-servers Arenas https://donsz.nl/blog/arenas/ Can DARPA’s TRACTOR Pull C to Rust for Memory-Safe Overhaul? https://thenewstack.io/can-darpas-tractor-pull-c-to-rust-for-memory-safe-overhaul/ The amazing Rust podcasts that have emerged https://tim.mcnamara.nz/post/758930152514306048/the-amazing-rust-podcasts-that-have-emerged-in Find out more about the show: https://deterministic.dev/rust-review Find me on Fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/@bkonkle Find me at Nearform Commerce: https://commerce.nearform.com/ Find me on Discord in the Rust, Go, and Denver Devs communities Find out more about Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org

In this week's episode I'll talk about the pros & cons of Rust vs C++, what associated types really are and why they are useful, some Rust foundation announcements and upcoming goals, an exploration of "spooky action at a distance" in UnsafeCell, and recent improvements to doctests. 00:00 - Intro 01:32 - Rust vs C++ - A Real-World Perspective 23:56 - Fear Not the Association of Types 40:25 - Rust Announcements 47:12 - Mutex, Atomics and UnsafeCell 01:02:54 - Doctests - How were they improved? Rust vs C++ - A Real-World Perspective https://corrode.dev/blog/cpp-rust-interop/ https://mastodon.social/@mre/112960332845521528 Fear Not the Association of Types https://gavinleroy.com/writings/i-heart-assoc-types.html Announcing Rust 1.80.1 https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/08/08/Rust-1.80.1.html Project goals for 2024 https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/08/12/Project-goals.html Linux Kernel Documentation https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/[email protected]/t/#u https://rust.docs.kernel.org/kernel/ Mutex, Atomics and UnsafeCell https://leon.schuermann.io/blog/2024-08-07_rust-mutex-atomics-unsafecell_spooky-action-at-a-distance.html Doctests - How were they improved? https://blog.guillaume-gomez.fr/articles/2024-08-17+Doctests+-+How+were+they+improved%3F Find out more about the show: https://deterministic.dev/rust-review Find me on Fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/@bkonkle Find me at Nearform Commerce: https://commerce.nearform.com/ Find me on Discord in the Rust, Go, and Denver Devs communities Find out more about Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org

Welcome back to the Rust Review, your weekly source for news, articles, discussions, and interviews centered on the Rust programming language! Brandon Konkle filters down the frenzied firehose of activity around Rust and related topics to bring you a focused stream of highlights and opinions. Join the Rust revolution! 00:12 - Intro 01:03 - Async Rust Challenges in Iroh 18:22 - Secure RISC-V Bootloader 32:10 - Efficient Logging 39:48 - Mastering Dependency Injection 52:34 - Phantom Menace 59:55 - Announcing SeaORM 1.0 1:02:45 - Tauri 2.0 Release Candidate Async Rust Challenges in Iroh https://iroh.computer/blog/async-rust-challenges-in-iroh Developing a cryptographically secure bootloader for RISC-V in Rust https://www.codethink.co.uk/articles/2024/secure_bootloader/ Efficient Logging https://antoniosbarotsis.github.io/posts/efficient-logging/ Mastering Dependency Injection in Rust - Crafting a Custom Container https://chesedo.me/blog/manual-dependency-injection-rust/ Phantom Menace - memory leak that wasn't there https://flakm.com/posts/phantom_leak/ Announcing SeaORM 1.0 https://www.sea-ql.org/blog/2024-08-04-sea-orm-1.0/ Tauri 2.0 Release Candidate https://v2.tauri.app/blog/tauri-2-0-0-release-candidate/ Find out more about the show: https://deterministic.dev/rust-review Find me on Fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/@bkonkle Find me at Nearform Commerce: https://commerce.nearform.com/ Find me on Discord in the Rust, Go, and Denver Devs communities Find out more about Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org

At long last, the Rust Review is back! Your weekly source for news, articles, discussions, and interviews centered on the Rust programming language! Brandon Konkle filters down the frenzied firehose of activity around Rust and related topics to bring you a focused stream of highlights and opinions. Join the Rust revolution! 00:00 - Intro 01:27 - Without Boats: Pin & Pinned Places 25:52 - Crowdstrike: Preliminary Post-Incident Report 45:04 - Tracel AI: CubeCL 51:58 - Rust Foundation: Q2 56:35 - Veetaha @elastio: Named Function Arguments 1:01:52 - Matthias Endler: Don’t use Preludes and Globs 1:06:02 - Outro Without Boats: Pin & Pinned Places https://without.boats/blog/pin/ Without Boats: Pinned Places https://without.boats/blog/pinned-places/ Crowdstrike: Preliminary Post-Incident Report https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/falcon-content-update-preliminary-post-incident-report/ Microsoft: Crash Dump Analysis https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/07/27/windows-security-best-practices-for-integrating-and-managing-security-tools/ Tracel AI: CubeCL https://github.com/tracel-ai/cubecl Rust Foundation: Q2 http://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/q2-2024-recap-from-rebecca-rumbul Veetaha @elastio: Named Function Arguments https://elastio.github.io/bon/blog/how-to-do-named-function-arguments-in-rust Matthias Endler: Don’t use Preludes and Globs https://corrode.dev/blog/dont-use-preludes-and-globs/ Find out more about the show: https://deterministic.dev/rust-review Find me on Fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/@bkonkle Find me at Nearform Commerce: https://commerce.nearform.com/ Find me on Discord in the Rust, Go, and Denver Devs communities Find out more about Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org

Todays episode covers 7 different articles, starting with a "cautionary tale" against Rust in an early-stage startup context. Then I'll move on to a new testing tool from Facebook, an introduction to shared-memory worker threads in WebAssembly, a quick note about what's new in SeaORM v0.10, a new and interesting project from 1Password called Typeshare, async traits in the nightly compiler, and finally a detailed article on how Rust protects you when you're intentionally writing code that *isn't* async. Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale Hermit: Deterministic Linux for Controlled Testing and Software Bug-finding Threads and Messages With Rust and WebAssembly What's new in SeaORM 0.10.x Typeshare - New Project from 1Password Async fn in trait MVP comes to nightly Safely writing code that isn't thread-safe Find me on Fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/@bkonkle Find me at Formidable Labs: https://formidable.com Find me on Discord in the Rust, Go, and Denver Devs communities Find out more about Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org

The Rust Review discusses recent articles from the Rust community, with equal measures of opinion and curiosity! Alex Keliris joins me as I cover some great articles and awesome crates. Watch out for that Rust virus, though... 00:00 - Intro 00:58 - The ‘Viral’ Secure Programming Language That’s Taking Over Tech 10:41 - Blessed - An unofficial guide to the Rust ecosystem 28:29 - Rust v1.65: let-else statements 31:42 - From Fuzzing to Proof: Using Kani with the Bolero Property-Testing Framework 40:25 - Error Handling in Rust 45:50 - It's time to rethink how we use virtualization in backends 59:29 - Can Rust-wrapped C++ offer stability and performance benefits? 1:05:33 - Wrap-Up Today is Veterans Day in the US. I want to take a moment to say thank you to those who have served in the military and to their families! The ‘Viral’ Secure Programming Language That’s Taking Over Tech https://www.wired.com/story/rust-secure-programming-language-memory-safe/ Blessed - An unofficial guide to the Rust ecosystem https://blessed.rs/crates Rust v1.65: let-else statements https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/11/03/Rust-1.65.0.html#let-else-statements From Fuzzing to Proof: Using Kani with the Bolero Property-Testing Framework https://model-checking.github.io/kani-verifier-blog/2022/10/27/using-kani-with-the-bolero-property-testing-framework.html Error Handling in Rust https://nrc.github.io/error-docs/intro.html It's time to rethink how we use virtualization in backends https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2022/10/21/shuttle-next Can Rust-wrapped C++ offer stability and performance benefits? https://medium.com/@adetaylor/can-rust-wrapped-c-offer-stability-and-performance-benefits-e140b7ca1ba9 Memory safety in C++, Zig, & Rust (part 1) https://youtu.be/qeiRGbYCD-0 Find me on Fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/@bkonkle Find me at Formidable Labs: https://formidable.com Find me on Discord in the Rust, Go, and Denver Devs communities Find out more about Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org Find Alex on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlexKeliris

On the Rust Review I cover recent articles from the Rust community and why I found them interesting! This week's episode highlights Generic Associated Types and their impending stabilization, implementing critical Network Time Protocol services in Rust, the recent announcement of Turbopack in the JavaScript ecosystem, running a JavaScript engine inside your Rust process, Python and Rust interoperability, Property-based testing, and more! Generic associated types to be stable in Rust 1.65 https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/10/28/gats-stabilization.html Implementing the Network Time Protocol (NTP) in Rust https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/implementing-the-network-time-protocol-ntp-in-rust/ Introducing Turbopack: Rust-based successor to Webpack https://vercel.com/blog/turbopack Adding a JavaScript interpreter to your Rust project https://boa-dev.github.io/posts/2022-10-24-boa-usage/ Buffers on the edge: Python and Rust https://alexgaynor.net/2022/oct/23/buffers-on-the-edge/ Get Started with Rust: Enums https://serokell.io/blog/enums-and-pattern-matching Property-Based Testing in Rust with Arbitrary https://www.greyblake.com/blog/property-based-testing-in-rust-with-arbitrary/ Boxes, Heaps, and Stacks https://youtu.be/DEE1GKMbtgw Find me on Fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/@bkonkle Find me at Formidable Labs: https://formidable.com Find me on Discord in the Rust, Go, and Denver Devs communities Find out more about Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org

In this edition of the Rust Review, I'm joined by Alex Keliris as we cover articles from the #rustlang community over the past couple of weeks. (This is a trimmed version of the Live stream.) Why Rust? https://www.rerun.io/blog/why-rust Resources for porting from Go to Rust? https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/xzwmgs/resources_for_porting_from_go_to_rust/ Magical handler functions in Rust https://lunatic.solutions/blog/magic-handler-functions-in-rust/ Different test scopes in Rust https://blog.frankel.ch/different-test-scopes-rust/ Asynchronous programming in Rust https://opensource.com/article/22/10/asynchronous-programming-rust The Little Joys of Code: Proc Macros https://felix-knorr.net/posts/2022-10-14-proc-macros.html Platform Agnostic Drivers in Rust: Publishing to Crates.io https://apollolabsblog.hashnode.dev/platform-agnostic-drivers-in-rust-publishing-to-cratesio "Zero to Production in Rust" is finally available in paperback format https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/xyt63m/media_zero_to_production_in_rust_is_finally/ If you're looking for more articles, try This Week in Rust: https://this-week-in-rust.org/ Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bkonkle Find me on Discord in the Rust, Go, and Denver Devs communities Find me at Formidable Labs: https://formidable.com Find out more about Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/