May 30, 2022

This Week in Rust - Issue 443

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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.

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