What's New in Rust 1.72 and 1.73

Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.72 and 1.73 releases of Rust. This episode was recorded as part of a YouTube live stream on 2024-05-18, which you can still watch. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: [email protected] Timestamps & referenced resources [@03:49] - Rust 1.72.0 [@04:24] - Report cfg-hidden items [@08:49] - Unlimited const evaluation time The 2M limit [@12:52] - Uplifted clippy lints [@16:53] - Stabilized APIs impl Sync for mpsc::Sender String::leak ACP for String::leak PR filed live [@25:46] - Future Windows compatibility [@26:20] - Changelog deep-dive [@26:38] - -O - [@27:43] - Rustdoc search Whitespace as path separator Search for slices and arrays [@30:58] - Cargo will bail if build script uses cargo:: (actually in 1.73) [@34:13] - Cargo if workspace uses old resolver [@35:12] - cargo-add will better preserve Cargo.toml [@36:11] - rustfmt let-else [@37:49] - cargo -Zscript [@41:05] - Rust 1.72.1 [@43:37] - Rust 1.73.0 [@43:45] - Cleaner panic messages [@46:58] - Thread local initialization [@51:12] - Stabilized APIs {integer}::next_multiple_of [@54:53] - Changelog deep-dive [@55:00] - Unconditional recursion in drop [@56:04] - Write Rust’s version into .comment section Embed dependency versions into binary with cargo-sbom [@58:30] - I/O traits for Arc<File> [@59:34] - Make cargo --help easier to browse [@1:03:01] - Merge io::Sink into io::Empty [@1:05:11] - impl SliceIndex<str> for (Bound<usize>, Bound<usize>) Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Aerocity Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Jon Gjengset Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel