What’s Happening in Rust for 2024
What to look forward to from Rust in 2024
Resutls of the Annual Rust Survey. Shows that most programmers developing in Rust are doing so on a Linux platform and also use VSCode more over all other IDE’s out there. The main reason Rust is used in production, according to this survery is Rust allows for production code to be written with few errors from the beginning. The second reason given is the performance with a Rust system. The third reason is
What is in development
- Rust Foundation is working on a certification program. They feel that making a certification program through the foundation would benefit the foundation.
- Work is being accomplished on supply chain security in Rust through something called artifact signing. The verification process involves retrieving the signature from the transparency log and using it along with the public key to verify the artifact. This ensures that the artifact has not been tampered with and that it is indeed from the expected source.
- Google gave $1million to the Rust foundation to furhter develop C++/Rust interoperability.
- Improved Generics and Traits: The Rust team has been focusing on making generics more powerful and flexible, allowing for more expressive type-level programming. This includes advancements in type inference and trait resolution that could make Rust’s type system even more robust and ergonomic.
- Async/Await Enhancements: This is part of the Flatten the Learning Curve initiative by the Rust Lang Team. This is part of shortening the time it takes to be comfortable and productive in Rust.
Where to get news
Rust Conferences
This is last years webpage, but this Tweet states that Rust Conf in 2024 will be held in Motreal. This is my goto year-after-year Rust conference I always try to attend. The speakers are the best and you really get a sense of the diversity that is within the Rust community.
If you are just starting in Rust this conference is a great ontroduction to the Rust community.
Dates are September 10–13, 2024. There should be a website up soon to register.
… is a program dedicated to bringing new contributors into open source software development. GSoC contributors work with an open source organization on a 12+ week programming project under the guidance of mentors. GSoC 2024 is the 20th edition of the program and all of us at the Foundation are excited that Rust was selected as a participating project this year!
At the time of writing this the location is TBD. However the date for Euro Rust is set as October 10–11 2024.
For further announcements check the EuroRust X feed.
This is the premier global event for all things open source. That includes Rust, though of course it will cover many other technologies and topics.
Scheduled for April 15–18, 2024 in Seattle.
There is a discount for those who work in the industry for early registration. Registration is currently open.
