This May in Rust

News and Announcements

Rust 1.35.0 has been released!
- Goodbye FnBox, hello Box<dyn FnOnce>!
- Coercing closures to unsafe fn pointers.
- Calling dbg!() with no arguments.
- ... and more!
mem::uninitialized is deprecated, use MaybeUninit instead!
Graphics Team ships WebRender MVP! - WebRender is now being used in Firefox on Windows 10 devices with NVIDIA graphics cards.
Security advisory for the standard library - A security vulnerability was discovered with Error::type_id. A fix was issued in Rust 1.34.2.
A final proposal for await syntax - It's wild y'all. See also the discussion summary for additional background.

Rust in Motion (paid product) - An introductory course in Rust from Carol Nichols and Jake Goulding.
Rust in Action (paid product) - A book exploring how to use Rust for low-level development.
Rust Patterns: Enums Instead Of Booleans - Exaustive pattern matching makes enums safer and more ergonomic, even when a boolean would be sufficient.
A (type-based) Rust cheatsheet - A quick reference for loads of functionality on built-in types.

Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11 Million Concurrent Users - How the folks at Discord used Rust to massively improve the performance of tracking users in their servers.
Rust in Avast - How the folks at Avast replaced a legacy Java service with Rust.
Giving up on wlroots-rs - A postmortem on the attempt to reimplement Way Cooler on top of wlroots, focussing on why it was impractical to implement functionality from wlroots in Rust.
How Rust Solved Dependency Hell

memory-profiler - A memory profiler for Linux.
momo - A procedural macro for reducing the compile time and code size for generic code.
cloudsmith now provides private Cargo registries