This Week in Rust - Issue 443
This Week in Rust - Issue 443  
Podcast: Rustacean Station
Published On: Mon May 30 2022
Description: Highlights from This Week in Rust - Issue 443. This week features a new section within the newsletter as well as the hosts Sean, Allen and Tim chatting about compilers, front-end development, extending databases with Rust and more. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps & referenced resources [@00:00] Welcome [@00:10] - Introduction [@00:50] - Agenda [@01:20] - Quote of the week [@02:50] - Crate of the week [@03:30] Highlights [@03:45] - Things are Getting Rusty in Kernel Land Rust for Linux GitHub org Version 6 of the Rust patchset Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust LWN article discussing the Linux Plumbers 2020 session that kicked off the effort Prossimo funding the effort, sponsored by Google [@09:45] - The Rust Borrow Checker - A Deep Dive MIR (Mid-level representation) introduction From MIR to binaries discusses how binaries are generated MIR borrow check section of the rustc dev guide rustc_borrowck crate within the compiler [@14:40] - PixelBox Public Alpha PixelBox source code egui GUI framework for Rust PyTorch, a popular Python wrapper for the Torch machine learning framework ONNX machine learning format [@18:00] - Rust Ergonomics: Default and From std::default::Default trait documentation std::convert::From trait documentation std::convert::Into trait documentation Code Like a Pro in Rust book by Brendan Matthews, published by Manning [@23:30] - Our Experience Porting the YJIT Ruby Compiler to Rust YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler for CRuby [talk] MoreVMs’21: “YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler Inside CRuby” – Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert [@30:30] - Asteracea JSX introduction, from the ReactJS project [audio] Carl Lerche on macros (skip to 28:25) How does WebAssembly fit into the web platform?, an article discussing the interacting with the DOM from wasm. [@37:46] - Ferrite: A Judgmental Embedding of Session Types in Rust Haskell Session Types with (Almost) No Class [pdf] Session Types for Rust Session type Affine type, definition from Wikipedia. [Note from Tim: the definition provided by me in the podcast is incorrect. The term “affine type” is derived from affine logic, not affine transformation.] [@40:40] - New newsletter section: Call for testing RFC: Deduplicate cargo workspace information Scoped threads in the standard library crossbeam crate rustc dev guide [@45:45] - [video] Neon - Building a Postgres storage system in Rust pgx crate for extending PostgreSQL in Rust neon database source code [@50:55] - Extending SQLite with Rust Stored procedure English Wikipedia article Other items [@59:30] Final Comment Period for RFCs, PRs [@59:42] What is “yeet”? Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Brógan Molloy Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Tim McNamara Hosts: Tim McNamara, Sean Chen, and Allen Wyma.