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

RFC: Deduplicate cargo workspace information
Scoped threads in the standard library
crossbeam crate
rustc dev guide


[@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.