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A Rust community member critiques RFC 3678 on final trait methods, arguing that hard bans on overriding force downstream users to fork libraries when authors fail to foresee needs. They propose a warn-by-default lint with explicit, reasoned opt-outs, reserving strict prohibition for soundness-critical cases.
— via Rust Internals, cyan-river
Chorrent is an open-source (Apache-2.0) Rust library and CLI that transfers files between devices using a short code, built on iroh 1.0.3 and iroh-gossip. It adds BitTorrent-style swarming with BLAKE3-verified 64 KiB pieces, and raised one messenger app's media limit from 16 MB to 13 GB.
— via Rust Users, mrsarthi
Version 0.8.0 of iceberg-rust, the Rust implementation of Apache Iceberg, merges 144 PRs from 37 contributors. It adds V3 metadata support, DataFusion INSERT INTO for partitioned tables, richer delete file handling and writers, and drops smol in favor of tokio.
— via Apache Iceberg, author
