This Week in Rust - Issue 443

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.

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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.