Rustacean Station

What's New in Rust 1.62, 1.63, and 1.64

Oct 5, 2022

01:31:49

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Rust Analyzer 64 - New Workspace Inheritance

05:33

Compiler Specs - What Fields Exist for Targets?

02:27

Fusing an Iterator in Rust?

03:27

Introduction

3min

CargoEdit Add

5min

Rust 1.0: Thinner, Faster Mutexes on Linux

2min

Is There a Need for a Const Constructor?

2min

Using a Mutex From STD - Is That a Good Idea?

2min

Rust Up Component Add Target

2min

Getting a Target Triple in Rust Forge

2min

Is There a Target for Linux?

5min

Compiler Specs - What Fields Exist for Targets?

2min

10.

Is There a Lines Method on Standard In?

2min

11.

Fusing an Iterator in Rust?

3min

12.

The Unaligned References Lint Is Now Denied by Default in Rust.

2min

13.

What Are Scoped Threads?

4min

14.

Is Leaking Memory Unsafe in Rust?

3min

15.

Is Mem Forget Unsafe?

3min

16.

Is Cap Standed a Capable Object?

2min

17.

Turbo Fishing

5min

18.

Is There a Next Step Beyond NLL?

2min

19.

The Future of Baro Checker Errors

3min

20.

Allocation for Linux

2min

21.

How to Override Cargo Configuration Parameters in a Mod Test

4min

22.

Enhancing Dot Await Within Two Futures

5min

23.

What Is the Difference Between Libc and the OS?

4min

24.

Rust Analyzer Is Now Available via Rust Up

3min

25.

Rust Analyzer 64 - New Workspace Inheritance

6min

26.

The Stabilized API - What's the Compatibility Guide?

2min

27.

Rust Analyzer - Deprecated RLS

2min

28.

The Rust Compiler Is Now Built Using Profile Guided Optimization

3min

29.

Rust 164 Release Notes - Is There Anything More?

2min

30.

Rust's Standard Library Does Not Have an Allocator, but It Does

3min

31.

We Did Not Miss a Release

2min

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

[@00:58] - cargo add
[@03:37] - #[default] enum variants
[@07:36] - Thinner, faster mutexes on Linux
[@13:21] - Bare-metal x86_64 target
[@22:20] - Stabilized APIs
[@29:22] - Changelog deep-dive
- cargo -F for --features
- unaligned_references lint now warns by default
  - addr_of!

[@31:09] - Rust 1.62.1

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

[@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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