This Week in Rust - Issue 446

Highlights from This Week in Rust - Issue 446,
presented by Allen and Tim, with Nell
Shamrell-Harrington, co-hosting for the first time in 2022.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

[@00:00:00] Welcome

[@00:00:10] - Introduction
[@00:00:52] - Agenda
[@00:01:27] - Interview with Nell Shamrell-Harrington about editing This Week
in Rust

[@00:06:21] Submitting an article to This week in Rust
TWIR Github Repository github.com/rust-lang/this-week-in-rust
TWIR Twitter account @thisweekinrust
[@00:07:42] Call for volunteers to co-host an episode


[@00:08:38] - Quote of the
week

I wrote a bespoke time-series database in Rust a few years ago, and it has
had exactly one issue since I stood it up in production, and that was due to
pessimistic filesystem access patterns, rather than the language. This thing
is handling hundreds of thousands of inserts per second, and it’s even
threaded.

Given that I’ve been programming professionally for over a decade in Python,
Perl, Ruby, C, C++, Javascript, Java, and Rust, I’ll pick Rust absolutely
any time that I want something running that I won’t get called at 3 AM to
fix. It probably took me 5 times as long to write it as if I did it in Go or
Python, but I guarantee it’s saved me 10 times as much time I would have
otherwise spent triaging, debugging, and running disaster recovery.


“Configuring uWSGI for Production
Deployment”
(2019) by at Peter Sperl and Ben Green from Bloomberg
uWSGI’s max-requests and max-worker-lifetime options are intended to reduce the chance of memory leaks affecting production workloads


[@00:14:47] - Crate of the week: osmpbf

A Rust library for reading the OpenStreetMap PBF file format (*.osm.pbf). It
strives to offer the best performance using parallelization and
lazy-decoding with a simple interface while also exposing iterators for
items of every level in a PBF file.


OpenStreetMap
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT OSM)

[@00:16:40] Official Notices

[@00:16:43] - Rust Compiler June 2022 Steering Cycle

[@00:21:24] Highlights

[@00:21:51] (async) Rust doesn’t have to be
hard

Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream
Programming
Stack Overflow Developer Survey: Most loved programming
language


[@00:28:28] clippy book
[@00:29:40] Rolling co-lead roles for T-compiler
[@00:36:33] Hyper vs Rocket - Low Level vs Batteries included

Rust is surprisingly
expressive
(2013) by Steve Klabnik


[@00:40:00] Macro Patterns - A match made in heaven by Conrad Ludgate
[@00:41:11] Web Scraping with
Rust by Gints Dreimanis

Hyper with Sean McArthur


[@00:44:09] Trivia About Rust Types: An (Authorized) Transcription of Jon Gjengset’s Twitter Thread by Jimmy Hartzell
[@00:46:01] Rust language’s explosive popularity comes with challenges by Ed Targett

“A proactive approach to more secure
code”
(2019) by Microsoft Security Response Center
Project Zero team at Google
[audio] Rust Foundation with Rebecca Rumbul

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Tim McNamara

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Tim McNamara

Hosts: Tim McNamara, Nell Shamrell-Harrington and Allen Wyma.