Rust 1.81 is now available, with the newest version of the memory-safe language, featuring a stabilization of the Error trait in the Rust core library. Rust 1.81 was released September 5. Developers with a previous version of Rust installed via rustup can upgrade using the rustup update stable command. Developers can install rustup from the rust-lang.org….
Rust 1.80, the latest version of the popular memory-safe programming language, has been released, featuring “lazy” types to delay initialization of data until their first access. Rust 1.80 was unveiled on July 25. Developers with a previous version of Rust installed via rustup can update to version 1.80 by running $ rustup update stable. The…
Reasons abound for Rust’s growing popularity: it’s fast, memory-safe without needing garbage collection, and outfitted with world-class tooling. Rust also allows experienced programmers to selectively toggle off some—although not all—of its safeties for the sake of speed or direct low-level memory manipulation. “Unsafe” Rust is the general term for any Rust code that is contained…
