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Coding

Rust funds six maintainers as Clippy's review backlog hits 300

The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund is now paying six people to maintain Rust, backed by Google, AWS and OpenAI. Clippy's backlog sits near 300 pull requests.

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Coding

Rust stabilizes the never type after ten years and five attempts

The never type is stable and Infallible is now an alias for it. The catch is a breaking change to type fallback that crater flagged on 3,277 crates.

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Dev Stack

Firefox 157 will ship JPEG XL with a Rust decoder

Mozilla will enable JPEG XL by default in Firefox 157 at the end of September, but only after commissioning Google Research to rewrite the decoder in Rust.

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Dev Stack

Cloudflare's Kitesurf is a browser built for AI agents, not people

Cloudflare built Kitesurf, an agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Workers - 3-7x lighter than Chromium on CPU and memory, free in beta, Playwright-compatible.

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Coding

Rust turns on its next-generation trait solver in nightly builds

Rust's new trait solver is now on by default in nightly - the largest compiler change since 1.0, four years in the making, with stabilization planned within months.

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Dev Stack

Bun 1.4 ships the AI-driven Rust rewrite to production

Bun 1.4 is the first production release of the runtime's Zig-to-Rust rewrite, shipping faster startup and new APIs while critics question 13,044 unsafe blocks.

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Coding

Rust supply chain attack slips build-time malware into arrayref

Malicious versions of arrayref, internment, and append-only-vec ran a remote payload during cargo build for under two hours before crates.io removed them.

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