#rust

#rust

The Age of Oxidation signifies a shift where Rust is transforming the JavaScript ecosystem, enhancing speed and safety while reducing reliance on JavaScript itself.

JetBrains' 2024 report reveals that TypeScript, Rust, and Python are leading in growth and adoption among programming languages.

Rust allows developers to achieve speed, safety, and ease of use without needing to compromise on any one attribute.

The debate over integrating Rust into the Linux kernel has generated intense discussion, reminiscent of historical debates like vi versus Emacs.

A method to convert C code to Rust has been developed to enhance memory safety in software.

The evolution of JavaScript is prompting reduced reliance on it, with Rust rewriting tools for enhanced performance and safety.

Rust being used in JavaScript projects for performance

Do not rewrite everything in Rust for JavaScript projects

VoidZero Inc. aims to create a comprehensive, high-performance toolchain for JavaScript, leveraging its existing Vite user base for adoption.

Rolldown is a new Rust-based JavaScript bundler aiming for improved performance, compatibility with Rollup, and seamless integration into Vite.

System76 aims to enhance Pop!_OS by building a new desktop environment, COSMIC, in Rust to maximize performance and customization.

System76's Pop!_OS 24.04 introduces an alpha version of its new Rust-based desktop, COSMIC, which is incomplete but shows potential.

The operating system ditches the Snap format for Flatpak and replaces GRUB with systemd-boot, signaling a shift in its architecture.

Generative AI and LLMs are central to the future of software development, necessitating a responsible and balanced approach with human oversight.

aarch64-apple-darwin is now a tier 1 Rust target, ensuring robust testing and compatibility for macOS on 64-bit Arm CPUs.

Rust 1.83 expands const contexts, permitting references to static items previously not allowed, enhancing compile-time capabilities.

Google's use of Rust has reduced memory safety vulnerabilities in Android from 76% to 24% over six years.

Opportunity for students to learn and work with web3 technology, including IOTA protocol, Solidity, or Rust, in development of innovative applications and platforms with a focus on software development, quality assurance, and user support.

Rust is rising in popularity due to its focus on memory safety and efficient, maintainable code.

Google promotes using Rust for firmware to enhance security and address memory safety issues.

Transitioning to Rust faces resistance from traditional C/C++ developers despite its advantages.

Rust is gaining traction in high-level application development, particularly in database-backed systems, without compromising performance and safety.

The integration of Rust into Python projects signifies a major evolution in optimizing performance.

Lazy initialization can improve application startup time by deferring resource allocation until needed.

TensorFlow and Rust fusion opens new possibilities for machine learning enthusiasts.

TensorFlow Tensor type represents multidimensional arrays for computations.

Rust's ownership and borrowing principles help manage memory but memory leaks can still occur, necessitating careful management by developers.

Rust is gaining popularity for its performance and safety features.

Leptos, a Rust frontend framework, offers better performance and aesthetic UIs compared to popular JavaScript frameworks.

Rust developers are twice as productive compared to C++.

Major awareness shift towards using memory-safe languages like Rust due to security vulnerabilities.

The wide crate provides a solution for portable SIMD in stable Rust, enabling cross-architecture code compatibility.

Rust and AWS Lambda together enhance serverless applications, providing high performance, safety, and cost-effectiveness for developers.

Using Rust for kernel and user-space eBPF code provides unmatched speed, safety, and developer experience.

Profiling and benchmarking are crucial for identifying and optimizing performance issues in eBPF code.

Continuous benchmarking helps prevent performance regressions in eBPF code before release.

Using Rust and Polars, build a REST API for data analysis on large datasets.

Bruno Kind shares his transformative internship experience contributing to Polars plugins, highlighting the significance of user defined functions and community engagement.

Polars, a data science library written in Rust based on Apache Arrow, offers speed, efficiency, and a Python-like interface, making migration from pandas easier.

Microsoft has released a new hypervisor called OpenVMM, written in Rust, but it is not yet ready for production use.

Microsoft has released the 1.0 version of the Azure Quantum Development Kit (QDK), which is rewritten in Rust and is 100 times faster than the previous version.

The QDK includes a debugger and resource estimator in the editor, and is integrated into the Azure Quantum Service. It also offers capabilities such as completion lists, signature help, and syntax checking.

Engineers ported VideoLAN's AV1 decoder from C to Rust using c2rust, allowing for testing and easier refactoring while addressing complex safety issues.

Using Rust for building scalable systems at OneSignal.

Memory-safe programming languages recommended by White House report

Python's role in memory-safety highlighted by Python Software Foundation and Cryptography library's migration to Rust.

Rust provides modern tooling, Python integration, and safety features that enhance performance and reduce memory usage compared to traditional compiled languages.

Uv by Astral is a fast package installer written in Rust, significantly quicker than pip and pip-tools.

Astral's goal is to merge Rye and uv into one tool, focusing on Python packaging.

Ruff and uv can replace multiple Python tools like Flake8, isort, Black, pip, pip-tools, and virtualenv.

Astral's tools, ruff and uv, are just the beginning of the improvements Charlie Marsh and team are working on.

DevSecCon 2024 is set to enhance secure coding practices with insights from industry experts.

Python 3.13 features aim to improve performance with new capabilities like JIT compilation.

Using Rust extensions can enhance the performance of Python applications.

Doctest promotes better programming practices by linking documentation and testing.

Granian is a Rust HTTP server for Python applications.

pytest 6.3 includes improved diffs and other improvements.

MiniJinja offers a dynamic and efficient template engine implementation in Rust inspired by Jinja2.

It has adaptations for generating different text formats, like HTML and YAML.

Building templating engines like MiniJinja can allow insights into introducing dynamic elements into a statically typed language such as Rust.

Axum simplifies building complex web API authentication systems in Rust.

CRDTs ensure consistency in data replication across a network.

Last write wins (LWW) approach resolves conflicts in CRDTs by selecting the latest data.

Rust's Loco framework offers advantages over Rails, targeting Rust developers for MVC-style applications.

Inspired by 'The One Person Framework,' Loco simplifies application development for single developers, while potentially sacrificing flexibility.