I'm *very* excited to report that we got initial funding and have hired our first Rust maintainers!
RustNL's Rust Maintainers Team starts out with two full time maintainers, one intern, and five part-time maintainers, now stably employed to continue their work on Rust! 🎉
rustnl.org/maintainers/
A pie chart showing 1122 wifi clients, with roughtly a fifth Android, another fifth iOs, and smaller chunks for MacOS, Ubuntu, Windows, and other devices.
Fun fact: Just for RustWeek, the internet infrastructure in the venue gets a big temporary upgrade with extra wifi access points that get installed in the restaurant and the cinema rooms, because y'all bring more than 1 device on average and use a lot more bandwidth than the average cinema visitor.
A large cinema room filled with happy Rustaceans at RustWeek 2025.
Did you know that RustWeek 2026 is held in one of the largest cinema's of the Netherlands? This means: extremely comfortable seats, great air conditioning, perfect audio, and a very big screen: over 280m², the 2nd largest in the country! ✨
Don't forget to buy your tickets! 2026.rustweek.org
In our data compression projects, we sometimes hit limitations in Rust itself and in the surrounding tooling.
Folkert covers our contributions to the compiler and shows how we have become increasingly comfortable fixing these issues ourselves: trifectatech.org/blog/fixing-...
#rustlang #opensource
RustNation's closing keynote Canonical announced that we are preparing ntpd-rs, our Network Time Protocol implementation, for Ubuntu.
RustNation's closing keynote Canonical announced that we are preparing ntpd-rs, our Network Time Protocol implementation, for Ubuntu.
ntpd-rs is coming to Ubuntu! In RustNation's closing keynote Canonical announced that we are preparing ntpd-rs, our Network Time Protocol implementation, for Ubuntu.
Watch the keynote here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOA4...
@jnsgr.uk @rustnationuk.bsky.social @ubuntu-ls.bsky.social
#rustlang
The RustWeek 2026 schedule, including the talk details for RustWeek 2026, is now published!
2026.rustweek.org/schedule/tue...
2026.rustweek.org/schedule/wed...
Don't forget to buy your ticket!
#rustweek2026 #rust
** RustWeek Speakers Announced! **
Check out the selected speakers and talks here:
2026.rustweek.org/blog/2026-02...
Thanks to everyone who submitted to our CFP!
#rust #rustweek2026
** Workshop announcement ** Learn (more) Rust at RustWeek 2026!
Workshop: Building Web applications with Diesel
Trainer: Georg Semmler
Details & tickets: 2026.rustweek.org/workshops/di...
See you in Utrecht 18-23 May, 2026!
#rustweek #rustlang
Our workshop line-up is complete! We have a RustWeek record of 8 workshops in total:
Bevy, Zephyr, integrating into C, uFerris, learning hard things, Diesel, writing better Rust & (last but not at all least...) rustc!
2026.rustweek.org/blog/2026-30...
#rustlang @thisweekinrust.bsky.social
Ruben is headed to FOSDEM! Catch his talk 'Securing time with NTS' on Sun 1 Feb at 13.20 in room H.2215 (Ferrer)!
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
@fosdem.org
#opensource #rustlang #fosdem
Zlib-rs is now feature-complete! We've released v0.6, the first version with a stable and complete API. The blog post has the details.
With thanks to our maintainer Folkert de Vries, our contributors and @sovereign.tech.
trifectatech.org/blog/zlib-rs...
#rust #rustlang
There is a new European Mail Transfer Agent: Remails. It's on GitHub, written in Rust, and hosted in Europe.
Read Max and Michiel's blog on how we built Remails from a single binary proof-of-concept to a highly available, scalable cloud application: buff.ly/NdwGof1
#rustlang #digitalsovereignty
Holiday chaos? Ran out of time for your talk proposal? We're extending the deadline to submit talks to our CFP by 2 weeks. It's now open until January 18th! Submit your talk now at 2026.rustweek.org#cfp.
Happy holidays from us at RustWeek!
Second blog post from the Rust vision doc effort:
blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/19/w...
Working through the data we gathered really helped sharpen my understanding here.
Tweede golf in 2025 was… over 80% #opensource!
As a service provider working across the commercial, government, and non-profit sectors, we are extremely proud (and honestly pretty amazed) that 86% of our code written in 2025 was open-source!
Thanks to our clients and funders!
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New release of sudo-rs! Version 0.2.11 is out with askpass and multi-lingual support.
Want to see sudo-rs in your language? You can start helping out today. PR's are welcome!
We thank the @sovereign.tech for investing in this work, as well as 15 external contributors!
github.com/trifectatech...
The joint statement “Improving Europe's cybersecurity posture through memory safety”, has now been published: trifectatech.org/blog/calling...
It calls for stronger #MemorySafety incentives in EU cybersecurity policies.
Thanks to all supporters and contributors!
#security
How do you test code that a CI machine won't run? To support avx-512 SIMD instructions in zlib-rs, we taught Miri how to emulate them.
trifectatech.org/blog/emulati...
#rustlang
How do Merkle Tree Certificates help against the threat of Quantum computers to internet security? Maximilian Pohl explains MTCs, discusses his experience implementing an early @ietf.org draft, and @cloudflare.social's and Google Security's current experiments.
Canonical's Jon Seager talks about our sudo-rs and ntpd-rs (!) in ubuntu-ls.bsky.social, and his bold but level-headed vision on Rust's future for Ubuntu, in the Rust in Production podcast with Matthias Endler:
corrode.dev/podcast/s05e...
#rustlang #ubuntu @canonicalltd.bsky.social @jnsgr.uk
How about Rust for real-time applications?
@diondokter.nl gets you started: buff.ly/g8qruby
#rustlang #embedded
Early Bird tickets for RustWeek 2026 are available until Nov 30.
Get your 20% discount while you can!
The world's biggest Rust conference returns to beautiful Utrecht, welcoming over 900+ community members, professionals and the maintainers of Rust.
2026.rustweek.org
#rustweek2026 #rustlang
The source of the standard Rust Hello World program with the generated assembly before and after the change. The before version has 11 instructions and stores 56 bytes on the stack. The after version has 3 instructions and stores no data on the stack.
🦀 I've improved the implementation behind all the string formatting macros in Rust: println, panic, format, write, log::info, etc. (Everything using format_args!().) They will compile a bit faster, use a bit less memory while compiling, result in smaller binaries, and produce more efficient code! 🎉
Please support the call for Memory Safety incentives in EU cybersecurity policies.
If you agree with the position that memory safety should be on the EU and national cybersecurity agendas, please consider adding your name to this statement to show your support: trifectatech.org/blog/support...
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The Call for Proposals for RustWeek 2026 is now open!
If you’d like to give a talk, please submit your proposal via sessionize.com/rustweek-2026/
The CFP closes Dec 31.
#rustweek2026 #rustlang
** Speaker announcement ** Announcing our next speaker, Taylor Cramer, Crubit Development Lead at Google!
Info & tickets:
2026.rustweek.org
Ahead of our CFP we will be announcing our invited speakers. Want to give a talk? Our CFP opens Nov 1st.
#rustlang
#rustweek2026
@cloudflare.social wrote a blog post on Merkle Tree Certificates. It includes Max' work: an experimental implementation in Rust, and his thesis "Implementation and Analysis of Merkle Tree Certificates for PostQuantum Secure Authentication in TLS".
Read it here: bit.ly/48MijCX
#rustlang #security
** Speaker announcement ** Our next speaker is Andreea Costea, Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology.
Info & tickets:
2026.rustweek.org
Ahead of our CFP we will be announcing our invited speakers. Also want to speak at RustWeek? Our CFP opens Nov 1st.
#rustlang
#rustweek2026
Watch Marc's talk at the Ubuntu Summit in London, "Sudo-rs and beyond":
www.youtube.com/live/bEEamxJ...
@canonicalltd.bsky.social
#rust #rustlang #ubuntu
If your company is interested in funding Rust maintainers, please reach out to me or @erikjee.bsky.social!
You can find our sponsors prospectus here: rustnl.org/resources/Ru...
Let me know if you want to talk! 💛
(Message me through Bluesky, Mastodon, Rust Zulip, or email: mara@rustnl.org)