Jon and Ben examine the features of Rust 1.44 and Rust 1.45.



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Timestamps & referenced resources

[@01:21] - Rust 1.44 (Detailed Release Notes)


[@01:50] - cargo tree subcommand
[@04:52] - async/await in #[no_std] contexts
[@12:16] - Unicode 13 is now supported
[@17:16] - rustc now respects the -C codegen-units flag in incremental mode
[@18:47] - Special cased vec![] to map directly to Vec::new()


[@28:51] - Rust 1.45


[@29:14] - Fixing an unsoundness in float to integer casts
[@39:16] - Stabilizing function-like procedural macros in expressions, patterns, and statements

[@43:29] - str::strip_prefix and str::strip_suffix

Bonus: Opening up the Rust Core Team agenda

See also: The Inside Rust Blog






Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Jeremy Jung

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Ben Striegel

Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel