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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Link: github.com/rust-lang/le...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Allow observers to participate during meetings > Rust Leadership Council revised observer policy allowing useful participation in meetings, aligning rules with longstanding practice and ending frequent violations.
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Link: rustfoundation.org/media/rust-f...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
JUST IN: Rust Foundation Welcomes New Members: CodSpeed, Haevek, Perplexity, and Software Stewardship Lab
Image: JUST IN: Rust Foundation Welcomes New Members: CodSpeed, Haevek, Perplexity, and Software Stewardship Lab
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Link: runtimeverification.com/blog/hardeni...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hardening Linux's C Code: A Rewrite-and-Verify Loop > Extract Linux C parser, rewrite safely in Rust, differential-fuzz for match, prove no OOB in Lean; helped fix UVC overflow.
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> Extract Linux C parser, rewrite safely in Rust, differential-fuzz for match, prove no OOB in Lean; helped fix UVC overflow.
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Link: minimaxir.com/2026/09/agen...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Writing Rust code that's faster than state-of-the-art libraries by asking agents to make the code faster > Max Woolf shows agentic LLMs iteratively optimize Rust code via strict benchmarks and prompts, yielding 2x–20x speedups over state-of-the-art libraries without unsafe code
Image: Writing Rust code that's faster than state-of-the-art libraries by asking agents to make the code faster


> Max Woolf shows agentic LLMs iteratively optimize Rust code via strict benchmarks and prompts, yielding 2x–20x speedups over state-of-the-art libraries without unsafe code
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Link: www.scylladb.com/2026/09/22/b...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Building a Faster C# Driver for ScyllaDB…on our Self-Baked C#-Rust FFI Framework > ScyllaDB rebuilt its C# driver atop Rust via custom FFI framework, keeping the API while nearly doubling concurrent performance.
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> ScyllaDB rebuilt its C# driver atop Rust via custom FFI framework, keeping the API while nearly doubling concurrent performance.
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The myth of consensual Rust
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Link: heirlm.xyz/blog/apalis-...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Rust Background Jobs with Apalis and Postgres: Reminders on Solana > How Heirloom built reliable Solana reminder jobs with Apalis + Postgres: idempotent keys, onchain guards, retries, and a migration gotcha.
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> How Heirloom built reliable Solana reminder jobs with Apalis + Postgres: idempotent keys, onchain guards, retries, and a migration gotcha.
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Link: steveklabnik.com/writing/argu...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Arguing about arguments > Steve Klabnik, once against fancy Rust argument features from Ruby experience, now cautiously supports named parameters alone due to AI coding agents improving call-site clarity.
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> Steve Klabnik, once against fancy Rust argument features from Ruby experience, now cautiously supports named parameters alone due to AI coding agents improving call-site clarity.
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Rust's learning curve is mostly a learning curve about computers.
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Link: linebender.org/blog/fearles...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fearless SIMD v1.0 is here > Fearless SIMD v1.0 enables safe, performant portable SIMD in Rust without unsafe code, via macros and safe intrinsics access, already widely adopted.
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> Fearless SIMD v1.0 enables safe, performant portable SIMD in Rust without unsafe code, via macros and safe intrinsics access, already widely adopted.
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Link: iggy.apache.org/blogs/2026/0...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Apache Iggy 0.9.0 Release > Apache Iggy 0.9.0 is the first TLP release, adding full VSR clustering, durability options, many SDK/connector updates, and major performance gains.
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> Apache Iggy 0.9.0 is the first TLP release, adding full VSR clustering, durability options, many SDK/connector updates, and major performance gains.
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Link: docs.pola.rs/releases/upg...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Polars 2.0 makes streaming the default Lazy engine (order no longer guaranteed), tightens casts/API, removes many deprecated features, and changes CSV/IPC behavior.
Image: Polars 2.0 makes streaming the default Lazy engine (order no longer guaranteed), tightens casts/API, removes many deprecated features, and changes CSV/IPC behavior.
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Link: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/09/22/a...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Announcing a Maintainer in Residence: Scott Schafer for the Cargo team > Rust Foundation funds Scott Schafer full-time as Cargo Maintainer in Residence to ease the team’s heavy maintenance load and backlog.
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> Rust Foundation funds Scott Schafer full-time as Cargo Maintainer in Residence to ease the team’s heavy maintenance load and backlog.
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This listicle is part of our weekly newsletter below! weeklyrust.substack.com/p/saving-100...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
10. Bryan Parno from AWS wrote on Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus. www.amazon.science/blog/develop...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
9. GitHub rewrote Copilot’s agent runtime from TypeScript to Rust using Copilot and got huge performance gains. Typical Rust flex, they say. github.blog/ai-and-ml/ge...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
8. Last week RustFS hit 1.0.0 GA and launched as production-ready open-source S3-compatible object storage. rustfs.com/blog/announc...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
7. Louis Escher gave a talk about how the Astro 7 compiler used to work and what is different after the rewrite in Rust. [video] www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD4H...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
6. The nerds at Planetscale released Lead, a non-production Postgres text-search extension for exercising TIN-compatible application SQL in development, test, CI, and staging environments. github.com/planetscale/...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
5. EuroRust is happening on 14–17 October in Barcelona, Spain. Jon Gjengset and Orhun Parmaksız are speaking, register now or spend the rest of the year regretting it. www.tickettailor.com/events/euror...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
4. ClickHouse open-sourced walshadow which provides sub-second PostgreSQL to ClickHouse replication including initial load schema changes and continuous sync. github.com/ClickHouse/w...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
3. Igor Aleksanov wrote why building a Rust LSP is a special kind of developer masochism that will test you in new and creative ways. rust-glancer.github.io/blog/why-lsp...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
2. Principles for fast Tokio applications covers measuring real metrics first then yielding for latency batching for throughput. dial9-rs.github.io/blog/princip...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1. Crates.io and Rust security team wrote about an ongoing phishing campaign that targets Rust developers via fake job and video calls to install malware or steal credentials so stay vigilant and enable MFA. blog.rust-lang.org/2026/09/17/t...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Awesome Links Of Last Week 🧵 Check thread below 👇 #rustlang #rust
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Credits: www.reddit.com/r/rustjerk/s...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How Rust programmers seem to normal people 😎
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Link: blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Maintainer spotlight: Alejandra González (@blyxyas) > Alejandra González (@blyxyas), Clippy maintainer and first Maintainer in Residence, shares her path into Rust, mentoring, and passion for faster compile times.
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> Alejandra González (@blyxyas), Clippy maintainer and first Maintainer in Residence, shares her path into Rust, mentoring, and passion for faster compile times.
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Link: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/09/21/g...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
GitHub Actions leaking secrets when Miri output is cached > Miri cached all env vars in target/, letting GitHub Actions PR caches leak secrets. Fixed by restricting preserved variables; clear caches and rotate secrets.
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> Miri cached all env vars in target/, letting GitHub Actions PR caches leak secrets. Fixed by restricting preserved variables; clear caches and rotate secrets.
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Link: github.com/slint-ui/sli...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Slint v1.18.1 got released. > It's a patch release fixing bugs and crashes.
Image:Slint v1.18.1 got released.


>  It's a patch release fixing bugs and crashes.
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Link: matklad.github.io/2026/09/19/f...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Finding Bugs > A simple generative fuzzer comparing regex vs regex_lite found the known bug (and another) by testing small, weighted random regexes and inputs.
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> A simple generative fuzzer comparing regex vs regex_lite found the known bug (and another) by testing small, weighted random regexes and inputs.
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
you vs him
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A surprisingly large amount of software engineering is asking: “Who owns this?”
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Link: jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/t...
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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trying to Make a Loop Auto-Vectorize > Float loops resist auto-vectorization due to non-associativity; Rust’s algebraic operators enable it, often outperforming naive intrinsics via multi-accumulator SIMD.
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> Float loops resist auto-vectorization due to non-associativity; Rust’s algebraic operators enable it, often outperforming naive intrinsics via multi-accumulator SIMD.
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