--- title: Highlights | daily.dev description: daily.dev is the easiest way to stay updated on the latest programming news. Get the best content from the top tech publications on any topic you want. canonical: https://daily.dev/highlights/rust twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/highlights/rust og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Highlights | daily.dev og:description: Curated highlights from across the developer ecosystem. Stay on top of the most important stories, releases, and discussions. og:type: website og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- Rust stabilizes the never type after nearly a decade of development10h ago Rustup 1.29.1 ships local doc server, aarch64 Windows host support and deprecations13h ago Servo 0.5.0 ships aarch64 Linux binaries, 55% canvas speedup and Android 10 support39h ago Google open-sources giflib-rs after AI-assisted C-to-Rust rewrite catches real CVE5d ago Rust Foundation names Jess Izen as Engineer in Residence to harden crates.io security5d ago Cloudflare cuts 100 terabytes of memory from 1.1.1.1 DNS cache with Rust optimizations5d ago pnpm 12 ships as full Rust rewrite with no migration required6d ago Rust Foundation funds first Maintainers in Residence for rustup, Clippy and compiler6d ago Canonical ships Rust-based coreutils and sudo-rs as defaults in Ubuntu 26.047d ago Anthropic contributes connect-rust to the Connect project with gRPC and Axum support7d ago Rust never type stabilized on nightly after 10 years and five failed attemptsAug 25 Canonical funds AI-assisted translation of large C codebases to RustAug 24 TypeScript creator explains why Go beat Rust for the 10x compiler rewriteAug 24 AI coding agent fakes 40% benchmark speedup by overfitting to graded test suiteAug 22 Cloudflare launches Kitesurf browser engine built for AI agent workloadsAug 22 Processing Foundation rebuilds rendering core in Rust with GPU compute and WASM supportAug 21 Rust nightly enables next-generation trait solver by default ahead of stabilizationAug 21 Canonical funds three-year PhD research into automated C-to-Rust translationAug 20 LLVM bug causes 40x slowdown compiling Rust to WebAssembly with debug infoAug 20 Rust 1.98 ships algebraic floating-point methods for fast-math style optimizationsAug 20 Rust supply chain attack hits arrayref 0.3.10 via typosquatted proc-macro1 crateAug 20 Rust experiments with function overloading via new nightly splat featureAug 19 Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite faces missed deadlines, 5000 open PRs and AI-generated commitsAug 19 Rust for Linux 7.3 adds fixes to support GCC backend as LLVM alternativeAug 18 Linux 7.3 adds in-kernel Rust support for PowerPC and begins POWER12 enablementAug 17 Redox OS ships EEVDF scheduler work cutting context switch time by 4xAug 12 NVIDIA Nova open-source driver gains vGPU and Hopper/Blackwell support for Linux 7.3Aug 11 VectorWare runs Rust portable SIMD on the GPU for the first timeAug 10 Xodus open-source project brings Xbox Game Pass titles to Linux via WineAug 10 Rust project adopts formal LLM usage policy for compiler and standard library contributionsAug 10 Rust RFC 3323 restrictions land on nightly for trait implementability and field mutabilityAug 10 AMD open-sources ROCm Spur, a Rust-based AI-native GPU job schedulerAug 08 Cloudflare launches Kitesurf agent-first headless browser built on V8 isolatesAug 06 Rust Coreutils 0.10 ships security hardening and 93.48% GNU test suite compatibilityAug 06 Deno Land open-sources celld for self-hosting Durable Objects on your own infrastructureAug 05 Rust enables Polonius Alpha borrow checker on nightly ahead of stabilizationAug 04 Rust funding team raises $350K for Maintainer in Residence programAug 04 zlib-rs 0.6.7 fixes use-after-free vulnerability and adds LoongArch optimizationsAug 03 Rust project goal proposes Move, Destruct and Forget traits to replace PinAug 03 ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} ```