Programming: Rust Release and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 02, 2026

• David Smith ☛ Re-Developing Perspective

  So I’m dusting off Developing Perspective. I don’t have fixed plans yet for the format or frequency, but I feel like I have something to say, and I want a venue to explore what it is now like to be an indie app developer. My first episode back is called Pivotal. It wrestles through why being an indie app developer right now feels so “pivotal”, in both senses of the word. There’s the constant, week-by-week change in our tools and workflows, and there’s the bigger structural shift in what it even means to “make” apps.

• Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppFastAD 0.0.6 on CRAN: Agentic Fix

  A week ago, release 0.0.5 of the RcppFastAD package went to CRAN, and we noted that it provided a stop-gap measure against a gnarly segfault with g++-16 under heavier optimization / inlining. We are happy to now announce that a new and fixed version 0.0.6 of RcppFastAD is now on CRAN, and has been built for r2u as well as at r-universe.

• Rust

  • Rust Blog ☛ The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Rust 1.99.0

    The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.99.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

  • LWN ☛ Rust 1.99.0 released

    Version

    1.99.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes this time

    include support for extern "C" variadic functions, the

    establishment of functions for obtaining the size and alignment of raw

    pointers, a number of stabilized APIs, and more.