This Week in Rust - Issue 442

Tim McNamara, Sean Chen and Allen Wyma discuss their highlights from This Week in Rust 442. Themes include security, testing, embedded development and async Rust. Watch out for the cameo by the Ada programming language towards the end!

Timestamps

Welcome

• [@00:12] Introductions and agenda
• [@01:20] Quote of the week

[@02:57] Official updates

• [@03:01] Security advisory: the rustdecimal crate
• [@06:55] CTCFC Agenda
  • A whirlwind tour of Embedded Rust by James Munns
  • Async Rust for Embedded Systems by Dario Nieuwenhuis
  • Rust in Automotive by Christof Petig and Florian Gilcher

[@09:50] Highlights from the newsletter

• [@10:15] Kani Rust Verifier Project announcement
• [@20:29] Rocket web framework v0.5 2nd release candidate
• [@23:35] Xilem, a UI architecture for Rust
• [@29:30] Over-Engineering A Fairly Simple Coding Challenge
• [@35:26] RepliByte’s release announcement
• [@39:07] Securing Crates, discussing side channel attacks
• [@44:09] Modeling Interconnected Social and Technical Risks in Open Source Software Ecosystems, a related paper
• [@47:10] Parsing/Recursive Descent Parser
• [@54:10] Rust Safety with Quentin Ochem and Florian Gilcher

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Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Aleksandar Nikolic

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Tim McNamara

Hosts: Tim McNamara, Allen Wyma, and Sean Chen