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Rust 1.80 has been released: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/07/25/Rust-1.80.0.html

Exclusive ranges, LazyCell and LazyLock, and lots more

https://twitter.com/ChShersh/status/1816514954302025820

me: how's rust?
them: I pledge allegiance to the crab

Making Pin more useable with pinned places:

Making Pin more useable with pinned places:

https://without.boats/blog/pinned-places/

jiff: A date-time library for Rust that encourages you to jump into the pit of success.

jiff: A date-time library for Rust that encourages you to jump into the pit of success.

https://github.com/BurntSushi/jiff

hear that? it's the sound of thousands of C++ programmers putting on their cat ears

hear that? it's the sound of thousands of C++ programmers putting on their cat ears
https://x.com/alpeh_v/status/1814560838478438484

rust fixes this

https://x.com/evisdrenova/status/1814355536152015094?s=46

Had an app written in Typescript that had a memory leak that was giving me troubles. Rewrote it in Rust and perf difference is amazing.  Borrow checker ftw

Had fun setting up Iroh.computer Tickets at last night's 0xP hack night

https://gist.github.com/ryandotsmith/7cbe77f061b4cdbc9ee270e84bb1fbca

Postmark: A succinct wire format for Rust

Postmark: A succinct wire format for Rust

https://postcard.jamesmunns.com/wire-format.html

you’ve got to be at least bi-curious to be able to write good rust

Friends who have experience with Ed25519.

There are 2 popular crates - one from dalek [1] and one from the zcash folks [2]. What is the recommended best practice? I'm assuming the zcash variant is the one to go with.

[1] https://docs.rs/ed25519-dalek/latest/ed25519_dalek/#
[2] https://crates.io/crates/ed25519-consensus

https://warpcast.com/shriphani/0xd285b21b

pretty good overview of HTTP crates for Rust

pretty good overview of HTTP crates for Rust

https://kerkour.com/rust-http-ecosystem-2024

What's the best library for a consensus protocol in Rust? Looking for something that is easy to use and extensible.