Rust 1.85 came out yesterday, and with it the 2024 Edition of Rust.¹ There are a ton of great features and changes that make the 2024 Edition release a really big deal, including async closures, a bucket of improvements to how unsafe is handled, improvements to the autoformatter, and more. You should go read the release blog post for more details; as great as they are, they’re not what I’m here to write about tonight.

No, I’m here, somewhat more self-interestedly, to write about the fact that if you open the home page for The Rust Programming Language book, you’ll see this text:

by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, and Chris Krycho, with contributions from the Rust Community

I remain delighted and somewhat astonished to find this a reality. Thanks to Carol Nichols for trusting me to pick up and do the work for the new chapter I wrote on async Rust, and indeed for the whole update for the 2024 Edition. It is a huge privilege, and I am honored to have my name up there beside Steve and Carol’s names. Had you told me when I started learning Rust and then decided to make New Rustacean nearly a decade ago, that someday my name would be on the cover of the official book, I would have been amazed.

I have done a lot of good work in my career, but this definitely goes on the list of things I am proudest of to date.

The good folks at NoStarch Press will have a revised print version of the book will be out as The Rust Programming Language, 3rd Edition later this year. (I have to get them the final revisions for it, hopefully next week!)

I hope and trust this update to the book will serve the steadily growing Rust ecosystem well!