Can you build a microservice using Rust? Or more importantly, should you? (more…)

ScyllaDB engineers developed a shard-aware Rust driver during our internal hackathon. Find out its features and how fast it really is! (more…)

dirs-sys 0.4.1 was just released and comes w/ a new dependency option-ext. I think this is a bit unfortunate due to two reasons: dependency bloat: dirs-sys is a rather low-level crate and just pull... (more…)

In order to learn Rust better, I decided to rewrite one of my previous projects, Minefield Mahjong. The game was originally written in Python, so I had an opportunity to see which ideas translate well and what needs to be different. (more…)

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a systems language pursuing the trifecta: safety, concurrency, and speed. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tweet us at @ThisWeekInRust or sen... (more…)