Episode Details

Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.60 and 1.61 releases of Rust.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

[@01:15] - Rust 1.60

• [@01:45] - Source-Based Code Coverage
  • -Cinstrument-coverage documentation
  • grcov
  • cargo-llvm-cov
• [@08:21] - cargo --timings
  • Example output for Cargo build
  • Cargo documentation
• [@10:21] - New syntax for Cargo features
  • Optional dependencies
  • Dependency features
• [@17:06] - Incremental compilation status
  • Incremental disabled in 1.59
• [@20:06] - Instant monotonicity guarantees
  • “And now we come upon a sad state of affairs”
  • PR moving from Mutex to AtomicU64
  • PR removing backsliding protection
• [@26:01] - Stabilized APIs
  • Arc::new_cyclic
    • Source for Arc::new_cyclic
  • <[u8]>::escape_ascii
  • usize::abs_diff
• [@32:27] - Changelog deep-dive