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RustRover is a New Standalone IDE for Rust from JetBrains
JetBrains has announced its new standalone Rust IDE, RustRover, which is now accessible under an early access program and will bring Rust support on a par with other languages supported by JetBrains IDE, says the company.
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AWS Open-Sources Policy-Based Access Control Language Cedar
AWS has open-sourced Cedar, their language for defining access permissions using policies. Cedar is integrated within both Amazon Verified Permissions and AWS Verified Access. Cedar can also be integrated directly into an application via the provided SDK and language specification.
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New Rust-Based Web Bundler Rspack Touts up to 10X Speed Improvement over Webpack
Chinese internet technology company Bytedance and Valor Software recently open-sourced Rspack, a web bundler written in Rust that aims to be a fast, drop-in replacement for Webpack. Some early benchmarks show 10x improvement in cold start time.
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Chromium to Allow the Use of Third-Party Rust Libraries to Improve Safety and Security
The Chromium Project is going to add a Rust toolchain to its build system to enable the integration of third-party libraries written in Rust, with the aim of improving security, safety, and speed up development.
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Linux 6.1 Officially Adds Support for Rust in the Kernel
After over two years in development, support for using Rust for kernel development has entered a stable Linux release, Linux 6.1, which became available a couple of weeks ago.
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Asahi Linux Gets Alpha GPU Drivers on Apple Silicon
After two years of work to reverse engineer Apple Silicon GPU instruction set and to implement the kernel driver, Asahi Linux has finally got an alpha-quality release of its GPU driver that is already good enough to run a smooth desktop experience and some games, Asahi developers Alyssa Rosenzweig and Asahi Lina say.
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Rust 1.65 Brings Generic Associated Types in a Step towards Higher-Kinded Types
The latest release of Rust introduces a powerful new language feature, called generic associated types, that allows developers to specify generics on associated types in traits. Other notable new features include the let-else statement, and support for breaking out of labeled blocks.
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GitHub Extends Its Supply Chain Security to Rust
GitHub has brought Rust support to its supply chain security feature. Aimed to ensure your project and its dependencies are free of vulnerabilities, GitHub supply chain security includes a database of advisories, a dependency graph analyzer, and Dependabot alerts and security updates.
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Rust 1.60 Released with LLVM-Native Code Coverage Along with Rust 2024 Roadmap
Rust 1.60 stabilizes source-based code coverage using LLVM native instrumentation, re-enables incremental compilation by default, and enforces Instant monotonicity guarantees. Additionally, the Rust team has formalized its roadmap for Rust evolution until 2024.
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Rust 1.59 Supports Inline Assembly, Extends Destructuring, and More
Rust 1.59 now allows developers to include machine-level instructions in Rust programs using asm!. Additionally, destructuring has been extended beyond bindings to include assignments, and generics now support the specification of default values for const parameters.
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AWS Finally Gets Official SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, and Swift
Previewed at Re:invent, the new AWS SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, and Swift provide idiomatic wrappers around AWS APIs that will allow developers to interact with AWS services in a more familiar and consistent way.
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Rust for Linux Progresses with New Abstractions and Infrastructure
A new patch for Linux advances support for Rust as a second language for kernel development. Besides updating the infrastructure and providing new abstractions around kernel features, the new patch sets the base for more frequent submissions, writes Rust for Linux project lead Miguel Ojeda.
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JetBrains Launches Lightweight IDE Fleet, Cloud Workspaces for IntelliJ
Fleet is JetBrains' attempt to provide a polyglot, lightweight IDE, including support for remote workspaces. Additionally, the latest release of IntelliJ also brings support for remote development to JetBrains IDEs.
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Static Analyzer Rudra Found over 200 Memory Safety Issues in Rust Crates
Developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Rudra is a static analyzer able to report potential memory safety bugs in Rust programs. Rudra has been used to scan the entire Rust package registry and identified 264 new memory safety bugs.
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Rust 2021 Edition is Here: Q&A with Armin Ronacher
Rust 2021 Edition hit the road perfectly on schedule on October 21, along with Rust 1.56.0. The latest version of the language includes support for disjoint capture, or patterns in macro rules, and more. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with Sentry director of engineering, Armin Ronacher, about where Rust is standing now.