Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.62, 1.63, and 1.64 releases of Rust.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

[@00:50] - Rust 1.62

[@31:09] - Rust 1.62.1

Not much to talk about. We also didn’t talk about:

Rustup 1.25.0
Rustup 1.25.1

[@31:56] - Rust 1.63

[@31:56] - Scoped threads
- The Leakpocalypse issue
- Pre-Pooping Your Pants With Rust
[@40:41] - Rust ownership for raw file descriptors
- Rust I/O Safety RFC
[@43:45] - const mutex initialization
[@43:54] - Turbofish and impl Trait arguments
- Search/replace generics reference
- Rust reference for turbofish
[@52:03] - Non-lexical lifetimes migration complete
- NLL stabilization and borrowck’s future
- polonius
[@51:33] - Stabilized APIs
[@56:27] - Changelog deep-dive
- cargo --config
- cargo new test code updated
- New targets: Apple WatchOS and Nintendo 3DS
- [OsStr]::join
  - The Join trait

[@1:00:24] - Rust 1.64

[@1:00:32] - IntoFuture
- Reference in original async/await RFC
- Original IntoFuture regression
[@1:03:43] - C-compatible FFI types in core
- libc crate
- libcpocalypse
[@1:09:37] - rust-analyzer component in rustup
- rust-analyzer proxy binary added to rustup
[@1:13:19] - Cargo workspace inheritance and multi-target builds
- Inheriting attributes from the workspace
[@1:15:58] - Stabilized APIs
- Stabilization PR for ready!
[@1:18:03] - Compatibility notes
- Increasing the glibc and Linux kernel requirements
- RLS deprecation
[@1:22:33] - Other changes
- Profile-Guided Optimization
- PR landing lint for unused tuple fields
[@1:25:12] - Changelog deep-dive

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Aerocity

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Jon Gjengset

Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel

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