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
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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

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