This Week in Rust - Issue 443 - Rustacean Station

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
[@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.

This Week in Rust - Issue 443