NewsLetter.

Rui Ueyama is rewriting the mold linker in Rust, AsyncIterator inches forward, and a candid thread calls learning async Rust the Dark Souls of the language.

Rust 1.98 lands, the next-generation trait solver reaches nightly after four years, and an 86-minute supply-chain attack briefly hijacks the arrayref crate.

Bevy turns six with entity counts in the millions, a developer says Rust ruined casual coding for him, and Niko Matsakis opens the cyclic trait debate.

Tokio ships Topcoat for full-stack web without WASM, COSMIC turns seven months, Andrew Kelley pitches runtime memory safety, and unbounded channels bite back.

Bun's Rust rewrite lands in production, image-rs gets a 5.9× blur speedup, and Utrecht hosts the highest Rustacean density on Earth at RustWeek 2026.

Zed ships 1.0, OpenAI Codex CLI hits 79K stars, and the community sharpens its craft: stricter Clippy configs, Box for stack control, and a Catan MCTS engine.

Ubuntu names Rust its language for new foundational work, the Matrix SDK got 78× faster with data-oriented design, and SurrealDB 3.0 ships for AI agent memory.