Episode Details

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: Defau