Rustacean Station

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October 29, 2025What's New in Rust 1.81 through 1.84
Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.81 through 1.84 releases of Rust.
This episode was recorded as part of a YouTube live stream on
2025-10-26, which you can still
watch.
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: [email protected]
Timestamps & referenced resources
[@01:58] - Rust 1.81
[@02:05] - core::error::Error
Tracking issue for generic member access

build-std Rust project goal

[@08:27] - New sort implementations
PR implementing the change

Repo with the research

[@10:49] - #[expect(lint)]

[@14:37] - Lint reasons

[@16:18] - Stabilized APIs
[@16:34] - Duration::abs_diff

[@17:25] - hint::assert_unchecked

[@22:36] - fs::exists

[@25:37] - Compatibility notes
[@20:40] - Split panic hook and panic handler arguments

[@23:00] - Abort on uncaught panics in extern "C" functions

[@27:01] - WASI 0.1 target naming changed

[@30:10] - Fix for CVE-2024-43402
CVE announcement

[@33:39] - Rust 1.82
[@33:39] - cargo info

[@35:06] - Apple target promotions
Platform support tiers

[@40:10] - Precise capturing use<..> syntax
The Captures “trick”

Talk on impl Trait

[@47:24] - Native syntax for creating a raw pointer
Pointers Are Complicated

Pointers Are Complicated II

Pointers Are Complicated III

[@53:43] - Safe items with unsafe extern

[@59:32] - Unsafe attributes

[@1:03:44] - Omitting empty types in pattern matching
The never type

[@1:11:33] - Floating-point NaN semantics and const

[@1:17:41] - Constants as assembly immediates

[@1:19:06] - Safely addressing unsafe statics

[@1:22:56] - Stabilized APIs
[@1:23:03] - thread::Builder::spawn_unchecked

[@1:25:10] - Working with MaybeUninit

[@1:25:48] - Exposed SIMD intrinsics

[@1:26:14] - Changelog deep-dive
[@1:26:26] - Rewrite binary search implementation

[@1:27:30] - Rust 1.83
[@1:27:55] - New const capabilities

[@1:31:50] - Stabilized APIs
[@1:32:06] - New io::ErrorKind variants

[@1:33:10] - Option::get_or_insert_default

[@1:34:56] - char::MIN

[@1:35:48] - Changelog deep-dive
[@1:35:48] - Unicode 16 Emoji

[@1:39:51] - Sysroot trim-paths

[@1:41:31] - cargo update informs of outdated versions

[@1:42:43] - cargo --timings dark mode

[@1:43:15] - Checksum-based freshness in Cargo nightly

[@1:44:26] - Rust 1.84
[@1:44:40] - Cargo considers Rust version for dependency version selection

[@1:49:03] - Migration to the new trait solver begins

[@1:51:47] - Strict provenance APIs
Pointers Are Complicated

Pointers Are Complicated II

Pointers Are Complicated III

Rust has provenance

Gankra’s write-up on raw pointer design

Strict provenance APIs tracking issue

[@1:57:53] - Stabilized APIs
[@1:57:58] - ::isqrt

[@1:58:15] - core::ptr::dangling

[@1:59:15] - Changelog deep-dive
[@1:59:15] - Include Cargo.lock in published crates

[@2:00:12] - wasm32-wasi target removed

[@2:01:06] - &raw *invalid_ptr is fine

Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: synchis
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Jon Gjengset
Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel
...more
2h 4min
June 28, 2025Dioxus with Jonathan Kelley
Allen Wyma talks with Jonathan Kelley, creator of Dioxus, a framework for building web, mobile, and desktop apps with a single Rust codebase.
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: [email protected]
Timestamps
[@00:00] - Meet Jonathan Kelley, Creator of Dioxus

[@01:55] - The Origin & Core Technology of Dioxus

[@24:45] - Hot Reloading for a Faster Workflow

[@30:20] - The Road to a Stable 1.0 Release

[@36:36] - The Future Vision: Full-Stack, Native APIs, and Beyond

[@42:55] - Collaboration within the Rust UI Ecosystem
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma
...more
1h
June 20, 2025Malachite with Adi Seredinschi
Allen Wyma talks with Adi Seredinschi, creator of Malachite, a Byzantine-fault tolerant (BFT) consensus engine implemented in Rust.
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: [email protected]
Timestamps
[@0:00] - Meet Adi Seredinsky, Director of Product at Informal Systems

[@5:23] - From Go to Rust: The Malachite rewrite of Tendermint

[@9:26] - Technical challenges of the original Go codebase

[@16:56] - Why Rust was chosen for the rewrite

[@22:23] - Quint: A developer-friendly language for formal methods

[@33:48] - Performance gains from the Rust rewrites

[@40:42] - Closing thoughts
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma
...more
43min
June 14, 2025Rust at Work - conversation with Eli Shalom and Igal Tabachnik of Eureka Labs
In this episode, host Gábor Szabó talks to Eli Shalom, Eureka Labs’ Co-Founder and CTO, and Senior Software Engineer Igal Tabachnik about how Rust is powering infrastructure at Eureka Labs - a blockchain company operating in a low-latency, high-throughput environment.
Eureka Labs’ work focuses on advancing the logic of block construction to support more efficient execution and expand the functionality that can be packed into each block’s limited timeframe.
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: [email protected]
Timestamps & referenced resources
[@0:00] - The Code-Maven live meeting series on Rust at Work.

[@1:14] - Eli Shalom Co-Founder and CTO of Eureka Labs.

[@2:20] - Igal Tabachnik Senior Software Engineer.
Scala

[@4:00] - About Eureka Labs and the “block builder”.
Blockchain

Ethereum Networks

[@7:10] - What is blockchain? What is block building?
Smart contract

Smart contracts on Ethereum

NP-Hard problem

[@15:00] - Why Rust?
reth

[@25:45] - Ethereum implementation and deployment
Ethereum specs and standards

EIP - Ethereum Improvement Proposals

[@35:06] - How did you get started with Rust?
Scala

Haskell

functional programming

virtual threads / green threads / tokio

Eq trait

F#

Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain talk by Runar Bjarnason.

[@48:40] - How do you select the crates you use?
Elm

[@55:03] - How much do you use AI? Which AI tools do you use?
Claude Code

Amp of Sourcegraph

GitHub Co-pilot

ChatGPT

LLMs

Perlexity

JetBrains

[@1:04:05] - What should people do in order to be a better candidate for a job at your company?
Vibe coding

[@1:08:30] - Things to take into account when selecting a language

[@1:10:48] - Training and mentoring new developers
Redis

Learning Rust: The Rust Book.

Live coding streams by Jon Gjengset.

Rust for Rustaceans book by Jon Gjengset.

[@1:16:00] - Final notes
Igal can be contacted on X/twitter @hmemcpy or via email at [email protected]

Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Gábor Szabó
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Gábor Szabó
Hosts: Gábor Szabó
...more
1h 19min
May 31, 2025SWC with DongYoon Kang
Allen Wyma talks with DongYoon Kang aka kdy, creator of SWC, a Rust-based platform for creating fast developer tools. It’s used in existing projects such as Next.js, Parcel, and Deno.
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: [email protected]
Timestamps
[@0:00] - Meet DongYoon Kang, creator of SWC, the Rust-based platform for the Web

[@1:54] - SWC creation & background

[@5:00] - Adoption by Deno, Next.js, and others

[@8:45] - Learning Rust and building SWC

[@11:14] - Community contributions and team structure

[@14:48] - Performance improvements with Chili

[@17:57] - SWC modules and supported languages

[@20:28] - Exploring Dart support

[@21:37] - Future plans for SWC
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma
...more
25min
May 29, 2025AccessKit with Matt Campbell and Arnold Loubriat
With AccessKit, Matt Campbell and Arnold Loubriat took on the ambitious task of abstracting over
the accessibility APIs of several target OS’ to offer toolkit providers one unified way to make their UIs accessible across platforms.
This interview was recorded live at RustWeek 2025 with your host Luuk van der Duim.
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: [email protected]
Timestamps & referenced resources
[@1:11] - Introducing Matt and Arnold.

[@1:45] - “What are you working on?”

[@2:00] - “What does it offer?”

[@2:28] - “Who would use AccessKit?”

[@2:51] - AccessKit bindings in languages besides Rust.

[@3:14] - Unifying accessibility protocols.

[@4:47] - AccessKit’s API.

[@6:58] - AccessKit tree concepts.

[@8:47] - When Arnold got involved.

[@9:08] - 6000 lines of code to find Matt.

[@12:56] - Matt’s history with Windows and Microsoft.

[@14:00] - How Quorum relates to AccessKit,
Quorum

[@15:52] - Challenges Quorum UI development faced.

[@18:12] - Arnold and Matt on the necessity for back-end testing, Android, iOS - Linux.

[@21:45] - On Newton and its Chromium relation.
Newton

[@27:55] - Newton on other compositers.

[@29:20] - Wayland protocol purists versus Gnome D-Bus frictions.
“Next-generation accessibility architecture” document

[@31:03] - Where can people find Arnold?
Arnold on GitHub as ‘DataTriny’

Arnold Loubriat on LinkedIn

DataTriny on Mastodon

[@31:39] Where can people find Matt?
Matt Campbell on GitHub

AccessKit website.

[@31:53] Your host can be found on GitHub.
Luuk van der Duim

Odilia screen reader

atspi crate

Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Luuk van der Duim
Samples used in interruption:
“Vinyl - 45RPM - Start 2”
by: day-garwood
License: Attribution 3.0

Record Scratch #3
by: musicvision31
License: Creative Commons 0
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Luuk van der Duim
Hosts: Luuk van der Duim
...more
33min
May 24, 2025Rust at Work with Ran Reichman Co-Founder and CEO of Flarion
Gábor Szabó talks with Ran Reichman, Co-Founder and CEO of Flarion, a company building high-performance data processing systems using Rust.
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: [email protected]
Timestamps & referenced resources
[@0:00] - The Code-Maven live meeting series on Rust at Work.

[@1:03] - Welcome to Ran Reichman, Co-Founder and CEO of Flarion.
Talpiot program

Wiz, About Wiz

[@3:19] - When did you start using Rust?

[@3:58] - Why did you think that Rust is good for this start-up company? And has it proven to be?
Polars

Apache Data Fusion

[@5:43] - Inviting the audience in the live conversation to ask questions in the chat.

[@6:22] - Have you considered other languages?

[@7:02] - What kind of Rust developers do you work with?

[@8:23] - Is any part of Flarion open source? Is it on GitHub?

[@9:22] - How do you handle the hundreds of open source dependencies of Flarion?

[@12:13] - Have you considered sponsoring open source developers? Bug bounties?

[@13:23] - What do you mainly do with Rust?
Scala

Apache Spark

Python

Ray

JNI

[@14:38] - Besides Rust, what other programming languages do you use?

[@15:18] - Do you expect new joiners to know Rust, or can they learn on the job?

[@17:44] - Are there parts of Rust that you avoid using?

[@18:41] - How easy for you to recruit developers?

[@20:56] - What are resources you recommend for people learning Rust?
The Rust book

[@25:04] - Do you have any suggestions for someone who’d like to move from web dev to Rust/C/etc.?

[@27:01] - What should I do to increase my chances of being hired?
Proof of work

[@36:11] - How do you evaluate your decision to use Rust?

[@37:19] - What are the good and bad parts of Rust and its ecosystem?

[@42:05] - Home assignments where candidates fix issues in open source projects

[@43:18] - Debuging distributed and high-performance use cases
Tracy Frame profiler

[@46:35] - What is your experience using AI tools writing Rust code?
Claude

ChatGPT

Deep Seek R1

[@49:45] - What would you tell other founders, CTOs, and technology manager considering Rust?

[@51:43] - What is next for Flarion?
Flarion on Linkedin for available jobs.

Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Gábor Szabó
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Gábor Szabó
Hosts: Gábor Szabó
...more
57min
May 10, 2025What's New in Rust 1.79 and 1.80
Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.79 and 1.80 releases of Rust.
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: [email protected]
Timestamps & referenced resources
[@01:02] - Rust 1.79
[@01:02] - Inline const expressions

[@08:33] - Bounds in associated type position

[@14:11] - Extending automatic temporary lifetime extension
Mara’s blog post on temporary lifetimes

[@21:55] - Frame pointers enabled in standard library builds
Does omitting the frame pointer really affect performance?

[@25:37] - Stabilized APIs
[@25:37] - {integer}::unchecked_add

[@27:39] - <*const [T]>::len

[@29:21] - <[u8]>::utf8_chunks

[@31:21] - CStr::count_bytes

[@32:41] - num::NonZero

[@36:30] - io::Error::downcast

[@36:50] - path::absolute

[@38:18] - Changelog deep-dive
[@38:31] - Stabilize WASM target features that are in phase 4 and 5

[@39:15] - Document overrides of clone_from() in core/std

[@41:46] - Switch to using gitoxide by default for listing files in cargo

[@43:03] - Stabilize lint unnameable_types

[@44:46] - manual_clamp lint

[@45:46] - Rust 1.80
[@46:09] - LazyCell and LazyLock

[@53:42] - Checked cfg names and values
Detailed blog post on checked cfg

[@56:41] - Exclusive ranges in patterns

[@58:52] - Stabilized APIs
[@59:05] - Vec::<[T; N]>::into_flattened
<[[T; N]]>::as_flattened

[@1:00:31] - <[u8]>::trim_ascii

[@1:02:06] - NonNull::add and other ptr-like methods

[@1:03:41] - impl IntoIterator for Box<[T]>

[@1:05:46] - Option::take_if

[@1:07:30] - Ipv4Addr::to_bits

[@1:09:10] - Changelog deep-dive
[@1:09:25] - x86_64-unknown-linux-none

[@1:11:07] - Add size_of and align_of to the prelude

[@1:12:34] - Never type fallback flowing into unsafe

[@1:17:29] - New panics and aborts in the standard library
Abort when OwnedFd is violated

Panic if set_extension adds /

[@1:20:28] - Restore enum variants in rustdoc for type aliases

[@1:21:12] - Change assigning_clones lint to pedantic

[@1:22:15] - Turn lints into hard errors

[@1:22:49] - env::set_var regression

[@1:24:34] - StdoutLock regression

[@1:26:00] - Rust 1.80.1
Fixes miscompilation when comparing
floats
and false positives in the dead_code
lint.
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Jon Gjengset
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Jon Gjengset
Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel
...more
1h 28min
May 09, 2025Dataland with Howard Zuo
Allen Wyma talks with Howard Zuo, CEO at Dataland, a software company that builds AI agents for customer support teams, using Rust.
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: [email protected]
Timestamps
[@0:00] - Introduction to Howard Zuo and Dataland

[@2:21] - Supported data sources and plugins

[@5:36] - Challenges with data diversity

[@9:12] - Focus on customer support teams

[@13:02] - Choosing Rust for performance and safety

[@18:39] - Comparing Rust to Go

[@24:10] - Learning async and debugging

[@30:28] - Rust’s ecosystem for data processing

[@48:32] - Rust and WebAssembly for UI performance

[@57:14] - Closing thoughts
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma
...more
1h 1min
April 18, 2025Nushell with WindSoilder
Allen Wyma talks with WindSoilder, a contributor to Nushell, a shell that treats data as structured tables. WindSoilder shares his journey into programming, his work on Nushell, and how Rust has shaped his development experience.
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: [email protected]
Timestamps
[@00:00] - Meet WindSoilder: Python developer and Rust enthusiast

[@04:15] - Discovering Rust and starting with Nushell

[@09:30] - Structured data pipelines in Nushell

[@15:20] - Using Nushell for CSV, JSON, and HTTP tasks

[@20:45] - Integrating Nushell with external commands and plugins

[@27:35] - From contributor to core team member

[@33:10] - Learning Rust through Nushell: Challenges and rewards

[@38:50] - Upcoming features and improvements in Nushell

[@44:25] - Advice for new contributors and Rust beginners

[@47:40] - Final thoughts and community resources
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma
...more
34min

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