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Welcome @jana as a speaker at EuroRust! As a member of the Rust compiler team, she has all the insights on the work going into stabilizing the next trait solver, including how smarter caching alone can yield up to 60% speedups on some benchmarks. We can't wait! 🦀✨
Read more 👉 https://eurorust.eu/talks/optimizing-the-new-rust-trait-solver/
I was looking forward to this writeup, and hoping that they do publish it (and that they actually go through with this switch for real). Good read, and crazy stuff (complimentary) in general… this is very very different way of software building 😳
Today we are at WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026! 🦀🎉
Come say hi if you wanna chat about Rust, RustRover and rats! 🐀
Big infrastructure security win for #rustlang: we've rolled out Ubuntu Pro on some of our servers thanks to 25 donated subscriptions from Canonical. Extended patching + reboot-free kernel updates for systems like docs.rs and Crater 🎉 Learn more from @MarcoIeni https://rustfoundation.org/media/strengthening-rust-infrastructure-security-with-ubuntu-pro/
Damn, what's going on in the terminal! 🤯
⚛️ **inertia** — A real-time 3D physics sandbox
💯 Simulate rigid bodies, n-body gravity, cloth & fluids
🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/aclfe/inertia
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #terminal #physics #3d #gamedev #opensource
We’re welcoming Njuguna Mureithi as a speaker at EuroRust! He'll be speaking about lessons learned building a Rust background task library across five years and multiple versions. API design, dependency injection, graceful shutdown & more. Can't wait! 🦀✨
Learn more 👉 https://eurorust.eu/talks/lessons-from-building-a-background-task-processing-library/
Your Rust Service Isn't Leaking — It Could Be the Allocator, https://pranitha.dev/posts/rust-and-memory-allocators/.
The author encountered a surprising memory allocator (`ptmalloc`) behaviour. Once demystified, they look for other memory allocators like `MiMalloc` or `jemalloc` and compare their behaviours.
Great write up!
Did you know that you can find all past talks on YouTube? All the way back to the first EuroRust in 2022! Head on over to YouTube to relive your favorites, and gain inspiration for this year’s EuroRust! 🦀
Check out the talks 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@eurorust
Today I did a livestream from the gym! 📢💪
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acU4jGI3FqE
https://github.com/sassman also joined me and we chatted about Rust 🦀
Want more of this with Rust maintainers? What do you think?
We're welcoming Arthur and Pierre-Emmanuel as speakers at EuroRust! They'll be speaking about gccrs, which after five years can now compile production Rust code, with the Linux kernel as its first major milestone. Curious Rust behavior, compiler trivia & more. Can't wait! 🦀
👉 https://eurorust.eu/talks/compiling-the-linux-kernel-with-gccrs/
Ever wanted a spinning rat as your terminal cursor?
New version of "Ratty terminal" is out! 🎉
🐀 **Ratty** — A GPU-rendered terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
🧀 Now supports STL files & has better performance!
🦀 Powered by Rust (@ratatui_rs + @bevy )
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/orhun/ratty
Found a TUI for handling DNS changes! 🤯
🌐 **dnsglobe** — A global DNS propagation checker
💯 Query 34 DNS resolvers worldwide in parallel, compare results & watch propagation live w/ interactive world map
🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/514-labs/dnsglobe
🛠️🛑 Ubuntu dă înapoi: Canonical revine la clasicul cp din GNU coreutils după ce varianta scrisă în Rust a blocat generarea imaginilor Live 🚀🐧
Echipa de ingineri din spatele Ubuntu s-a lovit de o problemă tehnică neșteptată în încercarea sa curajoasă de a moderniza nucleul sistemului de operare cu instrumente de ultimă generație. Canonical a fost nevoită să retragă de urgență utilitarul cp (copy) scris în limbajul Rust și să revină la versiunea clasică din pachetul standard GNU coreutils, după ce noua implementare a blocat complet procesul de compilare a imaginilor ISO oficiale (Live image builds).
Această mutare face parte dintr-o tendință mai largă din lumea Linux de rescriere a utilitarelor de sistem fundamentale în Rust pentru un plus de siguranță a memoriei și performanță, însă incidentul demonstrează că înlocuirea unor instrumente vechi de decenii nu este deloc lipsită de riscuri.
Iată detaliile principale ale acestei decizii:
🔹 Modernizarea care a blocat infrastructura:
În dorința de a testa utilitarele din suita uutils (o rescriere open-source în Rust a faimoaselor GNU coreutils), echipele de dezvoltare Ubuntu au integrat experimental noul utilitar cp. Deși în testele izolate de zi cu zi aplicația părea stabilă, problemele majore au apărut în momentul în care scripturile automatizate ale Canonical au încercat să genereze noile imagini ISO zilnice pentru utilizatori.
🔹 De ce s-au prăbușit build-urile?
Procesul de creare a unei imagini Live de Ubuntu presupune manipularea unor structuri complexe de fișiere, link-uri simbolice (symlinks) și permisiuni speciale, adesea executate în medii izolate de tip chroot/fakeroot.
Varianta în Rust a lui cp a dat erori severe sau s-a comportat diferit față de implementarea clasică GNU în C atunci când a avut de gestionat cazuri particulare de copiere a metadatelor și a atributelor extinse ale fișierelor.
Acest comportament nealiniat 100% cu standardele istorice a dus la eșuarea automată a scripturilor de build, lăsând dezvoltatorii fără imagini ISO funcționale.
🔹 Revenirea la siguranța oferită de GNU:
Pentru a nu bloca activitatea programatorilor și pentru a garanta livrarea la timp a actualizărilor de sistem, Canonical a decis să aplice un revert imediat. Ubuntu a revenit la pachetul tradițional GNU coreutils, care rulează impecabil și neschimbat pe miliarde de dispozitive de peste 30 de ani.
💡 Lecția din spatele incidentului: Deși Rust este lăudat pe bună dreptate pentru securitatea sa, înlocuirea utilitarelor critice din Linux necesită un nivel de compatibilitate perfectă în procente de 100%. Chiar și cea mai mică diferență în modul în care un flag sau o eroare este returnată poate rupe scripturile gigantice de automatizare din spatele marilor distribuții.
Experimentul va continua cu siguranță în ramurile de testare, însă pentru moment, clasicul cod în C își păstrează coroana în producția stabilă Ubuntu.
#Ubuntu #Canonical #RustLang #uutils #GNUCoreutils #LinuxDev #SysAdmin #OpenSource #TechNews
Midnight Commander ❌
Norton Commander ❌
Rat Commander 🐀✅
A self-contained terminal file manager with modern features!
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#Python Hypothesis package now requires #RustLang. This is a scale of reverse dependencies I can't handle. I guess this means it's the end of WD40 profiles on #Gentoo, and therefore the end of support for Alpha, ARM<v6, HPPA, M68k, i486 and some other random subsets of architectures and profiles. Thanks for all the fish, etc.
Copperline 0.9.0 Brings Major FPU and Amiga Timing Fixes
#Amiga #Copperline #AmigaEmulator #RetroComputing #RustLang #OCS #ECS #AGA #Kickstart #AmigaSoftware
https://theoasisbbs.com/copperline-0-9-0-brings-major-fpu-and-amiga-timing-fixes/?fsp_sid=9217
🦀 Building a high performance, thread-per-core, zero-copy OpenTelemetry engine in Rust - Albert Lockett
Exploring a high-performance Rust telemetry pipeline: thread-per-core execution, Apache Arrow, and a creative approach to Protobuf parsing!
Learn more 👉 https://eurorust.eu/talks/building-a-high-performance-thread-per-core-zero-copy-opentelemetry-engine-in-rust/
🦀 Moving a quantum compiler from Python to Rust - Jake Lishman
Qiskit is one of the oldest and most used quantum compilers, and it's been on quite a journey. See how it evolved from a Python research project into a highly performant Rust-first production-grade compiler, and what that transition looked like in practice! ✨
Learn more 👉 https://eurorust.eu/talks/moving-a-quantum-compiler-from-python-to-rust/
Bash just got a huge upgrade! 🤯
🪽 **flyline** — A modern replacement for Bash's command-line editor
💯 IntelliSense-style suggestions, fuzzy history, mouse support, animated prompts, AI-assisted commands & more!
🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/HalFrgrd/flyline
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #bash #terminal #shell #cli #opensource
Tracing HTTP Requests with Rust
https://blainsmith.com/articles/tracing-http-requests-with-rust/
#RustLang #HTTP #Tracing #Telemetry #Monitoring #Performance
Second, an improvement to how we normalize types.
We'll need this to implement type-checking lints in the future. This will eliminate a large class of expensive type-checks where the previous logic was unnecessarily conservative and quite inefficient.
https://github.com/obi1kenobi/trustfall-rustdoc-adapter/pull/1086
It's Thursday, day 4. Today's haul so far is ~2500 LoC.
First, making use of default-value stability which we previously exposed in rustdoc JSON. Pairing with Codex on this caught a subtle new edge case that affects which traits are considered sealed.
Copious test cases come standard, of course.
https://github.com/obi1kenobi/trustfall-rustdoc-adapter/pull/1087
wanna play blackjack in the terminal?
aight, no problem 🐀
Achievement unlocked ✌️!
Not to brag but… today I’ve used an atomic `fence` for the first time to fix a real bug.
So far so good. I am spoiled with Go having this stuff out of the box, but requiring `hyper` feels ok I suppose.
Watch git diff while the code is changing! 🤯
👁️ **livediff** — A real-time diff viewer for the terminal
💯 Watch file changes live as generators, formatters, migrations & refactors modify your code
🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/SoCkEt7/Livediff
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #git #terminal #devtools #opensource
🦀 Are you feeling lucky? Amos (@fasterthanlime) and Tris (@noboilerplate) are hosting a Rust quiz show at #EuroRust26! Two teams of expert panelists navigate bug-filled code in a spooky game show of pedantic corrections 🎲👻
Learn more 👉 https://eurorust.eu/talks/game-show/
Got a working version of httptrace-rs as a stand-alone client. I do, however, want to support hyper directly and offer a Connector so that's gotta be next.
A warm welcome to Spiral as a Supporter of #EuroRust26!
Spiral builds modern data analytics infrastructure, including their open-source Vortex file format (a Linux Foundation project) and SpiralDB data warehouse. They develop with Rust for its performance, correctness, and portability across platforms and languages– essentially, Rust's goals align strongly with Spiral’s technical priorities.
See you at EuroRust, Spiral! 🦀✨
I had to take a brief detour to triage a surprising new class of SemVer breakage.
It's always *a time* when the net result is "8 issues across 5 repos" 😅
The net result is the same: even more lints!
https://github.com/obi1kenobi/cargo-semver-checks/issues/1658
Reposting from new server:
I am more and more actively looking to find a new career opportunity. I've been stuck classified as a senior engineer for most of my working life. Every employer promising career progression; never following through.
Would love a gig where I can mentor and actually know that my words won't get fed directly into a chat interface.
Would really like to work with embedded systems in #RustLang (no pro exp yet). Though I am open to a wide variety of systems programming.
Over the years I've worked in Public Broadcasting, Game Development, Web Agencies, Education Technology, Museum Experience Design, Open Source Development
I have been remote first for almost a decade now. Basically a hipster-wfh. I do well with async practices and keeping people in the loop.
Are there any places hiring for remote people in Australia Eastern Time zone? Even if there are companies in other areas that know the benefit of async work!
We are building TUIs for the firmware now 🤯
🐀 **ratatuefi** — Run @ratatui_rs applications directly in UEFI
💻 No OS required!
🦀 All powered by Rust!
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/sermuns/ratatuefi