News 1: One year and counting

A year in, Rust is changing fast but still stable.

Links

• Rust 1.9
  • blog post
  • release notes
• LLVM
  • Projects built with LLVM
  • Wikipedia discussion
• MIR
  • blog post
  • play.rust-lang.org – note the MIR button!
  • Two enhancements enabled by MIR:
    • Non-zeroing dynamic drop
      • RFC
      • pull request and discussion
    • Issue 811: “Non-lexical borrow scopes and better treatment of nested method calls”
• Cargo blog post
• rustup
  • blog post
  • install from rustup.rs

Sponsors

• Aleksey Pirogov
• Chris Palmer
• Daniel Collin
• Derek Morr
• Hamza Sheikh
• Lachlan Collins
• Leif Arne Storset
• Luca Schmid
• Micael Bergeron
• Pascal Hertleif
• Ralph Giles (“rillian”)
• Ralph “FriarTech” Loizzo
• reddraggone9
• Ryan Ollos
• Vesa Kaihlavirta
• William Roe

(Thanks to the couple people donating who opted out of the reward tier, as well. You know who you are!)

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Contact

• New Rustacean:
  • Twitter: @newrustacean
  • Email: [email protected]
• Chris Krycho
  • GitHub: chriskrycho
  • Twitter: @chriskrycho