Dirkjan Ochtman

Congrats! Will you be working on r-a less or more?

Something something strategy culture.

Technology | 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey

once again, #rustlang is the most admired programming language on the stack overflow survey: survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technol...

Yup, and of course lazy_static, once-cell and num_cpus are on their way out as well.

crates.io: Rust Package Registry

The matches-index (July 2025): sifting through top (recently) downloaded crates from crates.io to find small crates that might make sense for core/alloc/std inclusion.

internals.rust-lang.org/t/matches-in...

Well, I don’t think it was obvious ~25 years ago that the tendency was necessarily towards richer types (personally because both the Java camp and the C/C++ camp were unattractive to me), so I’m not as convinced that today’s trend will continue in a straight line.

Stronger type systems. I live in Rust and it’s pretty amazing today but I think it can get a bunch better still with for example the evolution of const generics and const evaluation.

IIRC GCP has stuff like this built in with their HTTP gateway.

Used to be www.maxmind.com/en/solutions.... Not sure if still the case or how affordable it is?

Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule In an industry once known for cushy perks, some founders are now asking staff to commit to a 72-hour weekly schedule. You’re either in or you’re out.

My friends. This is not a good idea: www.wired.com/story/silico... - take it from every single wisdom tradition in the history of the world. You can love your work, but your work cannot love you back. Have more respect for yourself and your peers. Work hard. Do good work.

post-quantum: add unstable ML-DSA support by djc · Pull Request #2550 · rustls/rustls Fixes #2417.

PQC in rustls state in a skeet:

ML-KEM is enabled (and prioritized) by default. Initial (and, for now, unstable) support for ML-DSA support is available via the rustls-post-quantum provider (github.com/rustls/rustl...).

I'm responding here only to VS Code's current implementation of this idea, which moves my code around from underneath my cursor in ways that make it feel highly unreliable.

To be clear: I appreciate Copilot's autocomplete quite a bit and rely on it for small snippets regularly. I was feeling favorable about the theoretical idea of next editing suggestions as a way of jumping across files based on an LLM's understanding of modifications I'm making.

PSA: if you use VS Code and are questioning what unholy mess of machine-generated code is now enabled by default, thereby messing up your typing/navigation: disable "Next Editing Suggestions" in your settings.

I’ve been maintaining the Rust flamegraph implementation for three years, releasing about every 3 months on average. Consider sponsoring my work if it’s been valuable to you(r team).

What's the trade-off?

That “Worldwide” is fairly misleading, then…

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Suggest posting here:

www.reddit.com/r/rust/comme...

Oh damn, first time in a while I’ve been tempted. No timezone restrictions?

sudo-rs Headed to Ubuntu Every day, system administrators all over the world ask their computers to perform security-sensitive tasks across privilege boundaries, such as a standard user executing a command as root. The softwa...

sudo-rs is headed to Ubuntu 25.10!

Congrats to the @trifectatech.bsky.social team!

www.memorysafety.org/blog/sudo-rs...

I’ve gotten robocalls a couple of time supposedly from recruitment agencies that tell me to add that number on WhatsApp so it can tell me about a job…

Oh, just saw docs.rs/iceoryx2/lat... mentioned on Mastodon. Not sure if it satisfies your criteria?

When I evaluated a bunch of commercial C++ static analysis options 15-ish years ago they all sucked pretty bad -- full of false positives or very low value alerts.

I know there’s an ipc-channel crate that’s used in Servo IIRC.

That just means the same goals as 0MQ, but different means, I think? I wouldn’t dismiss it too quickly as a potentially better narrative/marketing term.

One of the best explanations of how (and why) you want to make small commits yet:

matklad.github.io/2025/07/07/i...

AIUI, experiments have shown people don’t like doing nothing valuable even when they get (more than) enough money. You mentioned you’re basically already at the level where you don’t have to work for money anymore, yet you’re still working. Do you think you’re different from/better than most others?

For example, see page 12 from basicincome.stanford.edu/uploads/basi....

On UBI, pretty sure science has shown that people do not actually work less if they get meaningful unconditional income (though they might do less paid work and instead care for their family).

Release 0.8.0 · djc/instant-acme The 0.8 release contains substantial changes to make the API more modular. It integrates full support for ACME Renewal Information (ARI, recently standardized as RFC 9773). Since the 0.7.2 release,...

Pretty excited about the release of instant-acme 0.8, with lots of work from @cpu.xkeyscore.club (who joined as a maintainer) on ARI, profiles, integration testing and a much improved API.

github.com/djc/instant-...