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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 1d

Test your solution on Rust Playground. Once completed, please share your solution and tag us either on X, BlueSky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, or reply to this email.

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Rust Playground

A browser interface to the Rust compiler to experiment with the language

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 1d

This Week's Rust Challenge 🦀

String Compression

Your task is to implement a compress_string function that compresses a string by replacing consecutive repeated characters with the character followed by the number of repetitions.

#rust #rustlang #programming

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

For those who couldn’t, we completely understand and hope you’ll join us in the next one.

And given the positive feedback we got, we’re excited to continue this series next year as well.

Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

Thank You

Two months ago, we paused the Rust challenges to host Rust Q&A interviews with prominent figures in the Rust community.

We sincerely want to thank everyone who took the time to participate. We really appreciate your time and effort.

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

Well deserved!

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goingforbrooke 🦀 @goingforbrooke.bsky.social · 5d

look Mom, I'm on TV!

Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 6d

All the RustConf 2025 talks are now live on YouTube — time to catch up or rewatch your favorites! 🦀

#Rust #RustLang #Programming
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA-u...

RustConf 2025 Highlight Reel

Take a look back at RustConf 2025, held September 2-5 in Seattle, WA, and relive the best moments that made this year's event so memorable. Proudly hosted by the Rust Foundation

www.youtube.com

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for finding the issues useful!

Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

Good job Nicolas.

We will feature your solution in the coming issue of the newsletter!

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

Good job we will feature your solution in the coming issue of the newsletter!

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

This project spotlight is part of our weekly newsletter below 👇
open.substack.com/pub/weeklyru...

🦀 The Sad Reality of Rust Adoption

Today’s Issue: The Expression Problem and Rust, RustConf 2025 Recordings, and Rust at Volvo Cars

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

HelixDB is open-source on GitHub at github.com/helixdb/heli....

GitHub - HelixDB/helix-db: HelixDB is an open-source graph-vector database built from scratch in Rust.

HelixDB is an open-source graph-vector database built from scratch in Rust. - HelixDB/helix-db

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

- Agent Whisperer Mode - Built-in MCP tools let your bots sniff out data and stroll the graph with ease.

HelixDB is aiming to be the backbone for agents, RAG pipelines, and knowledge-driven applications.

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

- Graph + Vector First - It’s designed to natively store and traverse relationships and vectors, making knowledge graphs and RAG apps way less of a headache.

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s why HelixDB could be a smart choice:

- Built-in Embeddings - Forget pre-processing your data; HelixDB handles vectorization with a handy Embed function.

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

Databases were built for humans, structured tables, neat rows, and polite SQL. Problem is, AI doesn’t care about your rows. It wants vectors, graphs, and unstructured chaos. That’s what HelixDB aims to solve.

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

This Weeks Project Spotlight 💡

#rust #rustlang #programming

HelixDB

HelixDB is a database built from scratch to be the backend for any AI application.

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 4d

10. Ferrous Systems is presenting at the European Space Agency’s Software Product Assurance Workshop, highlighting how Rust is being adopted across industries to build safer, faster, and more reliable software.
ferrous-systems.com/blog/rust-wh...

Rust: Who, What and Why for ESA SW PA Workshop

Ferrous Systems is presenting a poster at the European Space Agency's Software Product Assurance Workshop on the commercial uses of Rust

ferrous-systems.com

Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 4d

9. Bevy v 0.17 is out bringing with it Solari’s raytraced lighting for global illumination magic, BVH culling shrugging off 115 billion triangles, and hot-patching systems for instant Rust tweaks.
bevy.org/news/bevy-0-...

Bevy 0.17

Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!

bevy.org

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 4d

8. Sean Olson open-sourced mitsein, a crate that provides strongly typed APIs for non-empty collections and views, including iterators, slices, vectors, and more.
github.com/olson-sean-k...

GitHub - olson-sean-k/mitsein: Strongly typed APIs for non-empty collections, slices, and iterators.

Strongly typed APIs for non-empty collections, slices, and iterators. - olson-sean-k/mitsein

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 4d

7. If you missed RustConf 2025 or just want to relive the moment, all the talks are now on YouTube. [video]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA-u...

RustConf 2025 Highlight Reel

Take a look back at RustConf 2025, held September 2-5 in Seattle, WA, and relive the best moments that made this year's event so memorable. Proudly hosted by the Rust Foundation

www.youtube.com

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 4d

6. Drew from Filtra interviewed Julius Gustavsson, about how Volvo Cars is adopting Rust for automotive software, its advantages over C/C++, and its role in supporting Volvo’s goals around safety, electrification, and autonomous driving.
filtra.io/rust/intervi...

filtra.io | Introducing Rust To The Automotive Stack: A Conversation With Julius Gustavsson Of Volvo Cars

A filtra.io interview with Julius Gustavsson, System Architect at Volvo Cars. Julius and his team recently led a successful pilot where they used Rust to program an Electronic Control Unit. We talked…

filtra.io

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 4d

5. In other news, Google’s tossing another $350k at Rust and $100,000 in Google Cloud credits to support the Rust Crate infrastructure.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 4d

4. Alisa Sireneva’s “The Expression Problem and Rust”, discusses why enums and traits can’t fully solve the issue and how generics, trait bounds, and clever hacks attempt to work around it.
purplesyringa.moe/blog/the-exp...

The expression problem and Rust

A few days ago, I stumbled upon a Hacker News discussion about the expression problem – a conundrum that occasionally arises in software design. Some of the commenters noted that Rust completely…

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 4d

3. Think Vec is simple? Ha! Marek Markiewka pulls the curtain back on RawVec, Unique, and NonNull, showing how Rust hides unsafe chaos behind a friendly API.
marma.dev/articles/202...

Under the hood: Vec<T>

Let's look at Vec<T> to get a better understanding of its inner structure.

marma.dev

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 4d

2. Matthias Endler interviewed Alexandru Ene (Principal Engineer at Amazon) and talked about how Rust powers Prime Video, the challenges of running a global streaming platform, and the wins Rust brings to their systems. [video]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AArr...

Prime Video with Alexandru Ene

Are you one of over 240 million subscribers of Amazon's Prime Video service? If so, you might be surprised to learn that much of the infrastructure behind Prime Video is built using Rust. They use a…

www.youtube.com

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