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Sons of the Forest is already more popular on Steam than Rust or Siege
The Sons of the Forest Steam launch seems to have gone well for developer Endnight, as the new survival game surges up the charts on Valve’s storefront, already beating Rust, No Man’s Sky, Rainbow Six Siege, and other multiplayer stalwarts after just one day. Whether you’ve crash-landed into the jungle already, or you and your pals are still sharpening your stone axes, preparing to survive, you certainly won’t be alone, as Sons of the Forest amasses hundreds of thousands of players in its first 24 hours.
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Rust Console Edition Gets a Major Update – Power Surge!
How Rust Went From a Side Project To the World’s Most-Loved Programming Language
Most of us, if we found ourselves trudging up 21 flights of stairs, would just get pissed off and leave it there. But Hoare decided to do something about it. He opened his laptop and began designing a new computer language, one that he hoped would make it possible to write small, fast code without memory bugs. He named it Rust, after a group of remarkably hardy fungi that are, he says, “over-engineered for survival.” Seventeen years later, Rust has become one of the hottest new languages on the planet — maybe the hottest. There are 2.8 million coders writing in Rust, and companies from Microsoft to Amazon regard it as key to their future. The chat platform Discord used Rust to speed up its system, Dropbox uses it to sync files to your computer, and Cloudflare uses it to process more than 20% of all internet traffic.
When the coder discussion board Stack Overflow conducts its annual poll of developers around the world, Rust has been rated the most “loved” programming language for seven years running. Even the US government is avidly promoting software in Rust as a way to make its processes more secure. The language has become, like many successful open-source projects, a barn-raising: there are now hundreds of die-hard contributors, many of them volunteers. Hoare himself stepped aside from the project in 2013, happy to turn it over to those other engineers, including a core team at Mozilla. It isn’t unusual for someone to make a new computer language. Plenty of coders create little ones as side projects all the time. But it’s meteor-strike rare for one to take hold and become part of the pantheon of well-known languages alongside, say, JavaScript or Python or Java. How did Rust do it?
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A Developer is Reimplementing GNU’s Core Utilities in Rust
Debian developer Sylvestre Ledru [also an engineering director at Mozilla] began working on uutils during the COVID-19 pandemic and presented last week at FOSDEM 2023 on his Coreutils replacement effort. With uutils growing into increasingly good shape, it’s been packaged up by many Linux distributions and is also used now by “a famous social network via the Yocto project….”
The goals with uutils are to try to create a drop-in replacement for GNU Coreutils, strive for good cross-platform support, and easy testing. Ledru’s initial goals were about being able to boot Debian, running the most popular packages, building key open-source software, and all-around it’s been panning out to be a great success…. [M]ore performance optimizations are to come along with other work for compatibility against the GNU tools and implementing some still missing options in different programs
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Baldwin formally charged in fatal Rust shooting: revealed he was distracted during firearms training
Alec Baldwin Formally Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter in ‘Rust’ Shooting – CNET
Rust water is getting more watery
Someone must have sarcastically asked the developers of survival game Rust if “water was wet” at some point, and the answer seems to have been, “not wet enough!” Rust water is going to get wetter, in other words – although not in time for the next patch, which arrives in the main game on February 2. That update will, however, include a host of additional changes to some of the new industrial management elements that have appeared on the test servers.
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The Chromium Project will support the Rust programming language
Google To Allow Rust Code In the Chromium Browser
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