Rust 1.86.0 has been released! ✨🎊 🦀

This release adds trait upcasting, get_disjoint_mut on slices and hashmaps, #​[target_feature] for safe functions, debug assertions for null pointers, Vec::pop_if and more!

Check out the blog post and release notes for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/04/03/R...

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High number of SARS-CoV-2 persistent infections uncovered through genetic analysis of samples from a large community-based surveillance study www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

This preprint is interesting because of 👇, and in particular because of an alternative explanation that is not entertained

This is a fascinating thread that uses research in disaster response behaviour to explain why the number of people (about 10-15% of us) who are actively taking measures to avoid getting COVID-19 is so small compared with the "back to normal” and minimizer cohorts. 🧵

First experiment with #esp32c3 and #rust done.

So far it seems very straightforward to use.

github.com/wot-rust/wot...

#embedded #wot