What's new in Rust 1.38

Jon and Ben review the changes introduced by the Rust 1.38 release.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

• [@1:15] - Pipelined compilation
• [@3:25] - Linting some incorrect uses of mem::uninitialized
  • Rustacean Station episode on Rust 1.36 with discussion on std::mem::MaybeUninit
• [@6:30] - #[deprecated] attribute on macros
  • Rust reference: Diagnostic attributes
• [@11:30] - std::any::type_name
  • Security advisory for the destabilization of std::error::Error::type_id in Rust 1.34.2
• [@16:00] - slice::{concat, connect, join} now accepts &[T] in addition to &T
• [@18:10] - *const T and *mut T now implement std::marker::Unpin
• [@20:55] - New convenience methods for working with std::time::Duration
• [@22:25] - cargo fix --clippy
• [@23:40] - Diff-friendly format for Cargo.lock
• [@25:00] - Looking forward to Rust 1.39
  • futures v0.3 milestone
  • tokio v0.2 milestone
  • tower v0.1 milestone
  • hyper v0.13 milestone

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Zoran Zaric

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Ben Striegel

Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel