InfoQ Homepage Rust Content on InfoQ
-
Thoughtworks Technology Radar Oct 2024 - From Coding Assistance to AI Evolution
Thoughtworks recently published their Technology Radar Volume 31, providing an opinionated guide to the current technology landscape. As per the Technology Radar, Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) dominate, with a focus on their responsible use in software development. AI-powered coding tools are evolving, necessitating a balance between AI assistance and human expertise.
-
Steve Klabnik and Herb Sutter Talk about Rust and C++
In a Software Engineering Daily podcast hosted by Kevin Ball, Steve Klabnik and Herb Sutter discuss several topics related to Rust and C++, including what the languages have in common and what is unique to them, where they differ, how they evolve, and more.
-
No EC2 or Kubernetes Allowed: Insights from Building Serverless-Only Architecture at PostNL
PostNL shared insights and guidance from its transition from outsourced IT project delivery to an in-house product delivery capability. By embracing cloud-native technologies, with an emphasis on serverless services, the company achieved significant gains in productivity and market responsiveness while reducing operational costs.
-
Challenges and Lessons Porting Code from C to Rust
In a two-installment series, Stephen Crane and Khyber Sen, software engineers at Immunant, recount how they ported VideoLAN and FFmpeg AV1 decoder from C to Rust for the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). The series includes plenty of details about how they ensured not to break things and optimized performance.
-
Rspack 1.0 Released, 23x Faster than Webpack, Compatible with Top 50 Webpack Plugins
Rspack, a new JavaScript bundler that strives to be fully compatible with Webpack, is now production-ready. Rspack 1.0 is compatible with 40+ of the top 50 Webpack plugins. Rspack credits Rust for its performance and touts a 23x build time improvement over Webpack. ByteDance, the company behind it, uses Rspack in applications like TikTok, Douyin, Lark, and Coze.
-
Rust 1.80 Adds Support for Lazy Statics, Extends Ranges in Patterns, and More
Rust 1.80 stabilizes LazyCell and LazyLock, two new types that can be used to delay initialization of data until the first time they are accessed. It also brings support for exclusive ranges as well as a couple of related lint warnings. Additionally, it allows variadic functions without a named parameter for compatibility with C23, stabilizes many APIs, and more.
-
Distill CLI: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels Unveils Rust-Powered Media Summarization Tool
Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, has recently launched Distill CLI, a personal project written in Rust. The open-source tool leverages Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Bedrock to generate summaries of audio recordings directly from the command line.
-
JetBrains IDE RustRover Officially Released with Free Non-Commercial License
Eight months after announcing its public preview, JetBrains has officially released RustRover, a dedicated IDE for Rust development. The new release brings many bug fixes and introduces a new licensing model that includes a free plan for non-commercial use.
-
Rolldown, a Rollup-Compatible Rust-Based Bundler for JavaScript, is Now Open -Sourced
Rolldown is a new JavaScript bundler written in Rust for performance. Rolldown intends to be compatible with Rollup’s APIs and plugins. The Rolldown project is led by Evan You (creator of the Vue web framework) and is intended to become Vite’s next bundler.
-
Rust-Written Borgo Language Brings Algebraic Data Types and More to Go
Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go and strives to be interoperable with the existing Go ecosystem. The Borgo language adds to Go algebraic data types, pattern matching, Option and Result types, and more Rust-inspired syntax. The Borgo’s compiler itself is implemented in Rust.
-
Will C++ Become a Safe Language Like Rust and Others?
In a recent article, C++ expert and ISO C++ Committee Chair Herb Sutter expressed his views about what it takes to make C++ a safe language in the guise of Rust and other memory-safe languages (MSLs). His recipes include relying on tooling, as is the case with other MSLs, promoting safe language features, pushing unsafe features behind compiler flags, and more.
-
Cloudflare Open Sources Pingora, a Rust framework for Developing HTTP Proxies
Recently, Cloudflare open-sourced Pingora, their Rust-based framework to create HTTP proxy services. This framework has been open-sourced under the Apache License version 2.0. As a proxy solution, it seamlessly handles HTTP/1, HTTP/2, gRPC, and websocket traffic, featuring adaptable load balancing and failover mechanisms.
-
Lapce is a Native Open-Source Code Editor Written in Rust and Supporting Remote Development
Written in Rust, Lapce sports a native GUI leveraging GPU acceleration and an extensible plugin system based on WASI. It comes with support for syntax highlighting, code completion, and code diagnostics using any LSP-compliant server.
-
The Creators of the Atom Code Editor Open-Source Zed, Their New Rust-Based High-Performance Editor
Nathan Sobo recently open-sourced Zed, a code editor that focuses on performance, integrates AI capabilities, and supports software teams’ collaboration out of the box. For performance, Zed leverages a Rust code base, multicore- and GPU-optimized code, with a custom Rust GUI framework. For collaboration, Zed relies on CRDTs and team channels. Zed is currently Mac only.
-
Loco is a New Framework for Rust Inspired by Rails
Loco is a new framework inspired by Rails, that allows developers to write MVC-style applications in Rust. Loco builds on the comprehensive Rust ecosystem to enhance the application development experience. Rust's language features, such as concurrency, safety, strong typing, and performance, are some of the advantages over Rails or its derivatives.