Happy new month Rustaceans!
In this issue, we cover the recent SeaORM 2.0 release, spotlight a project, and highlight 10 awesome links of the week.
Here’s issue 130.
Last week the SeaORM team finally shipped 2.0 after a full year of release candidates.
When we first covered them back in issue 19 they were still grinding toward 1.0. Fast-forward to today and SeaORM has grown up, left the RC house, and is now sitting comfortably among the best Rust ORMs.
After 43 release candidates, this is the biggest release in the project’s history. Here are the headliners:
New denser entity format: Relations now live directly on the Model as typed fields. Cardinality and nullability are also encoded in the type system (e.g. BelongsTo<Entity> vs BelongsTo<Option<Entity>>).
Synchronous SeaORM + extras: The same API now works without async (great for embedded/blocking contexts), plus Arrow/Parquet support for analytics, SQL Server via SeaORM X, and Seaography 2.0.
The other big wins feel aimed squarely at people who’ve spent too many nights debugging cascading inserts. Nested ActiveModel lets you build a whole object tree and save it in one transaction, SeaORM figures out the FK order so you don’t have to.
There’s also an entity-first workflow, write the models, call sync, and the schema materializes. Strongly-typed columns mean a wrong value is now a compile error instead of a surprise. Plus the usual side quests, sync (non-async) mode, Arrow/Parquet export, SQL Server support, and a refreshed Seaography for GraphQL.
1.0 APIs still work, so you can migrate gradually. The team’s pitch remains classic Active Record ergonomics backed by Rust’s actual guarantees. 2.0 is their clearest shot yet at becoming the data layer Rustaceans reach for by default.
Glam is a simple and fast 3D math library for games and graphics.
It solves the classic problem of needing fast, predictable linear algebra without writing your own half-baked SIMD wrappers. You get vectors, matrices, quaternions, and affine transforms that actually care about performance and compile times.
Here’s why it stands out:
SIMD without the ceremony. Vec3A, Vec4, Mat4 and friends use 128-bit SIMD on x86/x64 and wasm by default.
Only the types you actually need. Everything is feature-gated. Want just f32 and bool? Disable the rest and watch your compile times drop. Integer vectors, size types, f64 all optional.
Camera helpers. Pick right-handed or left-handed, then grab the exact projection flavor for OpenGL, Vulkan, DirectX, or WebGPU.
Glam is open-source at https://github.com/bitshifter/glam-rs.
166 Rustaceans met in Utrecht for All Hands 2026 holding productive sessions on language, interop, and governance with the event returning in 2027. Also Jacob Finkelman wrote about his first month as AI Security Engineer in Residence at the Rust Foundation.
Cloudflare Research open-sourced pvcli, a curl-like HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 client for OHTTP that supports GET and POST requests with TLS.
Kata Containers 4.0.0 rewrite is out, with Rust-based runtime-rs as the default, deprecating Go for better security, performance and memory use.
Nicholas wrote how Rust compiler got 5.6% faster overall since Dec 2025, driven by massive rustdoc and Clippy gains plus many smaller wins.
Alejandra wrote how metadata analysis of dependencies revealed an unused itertools crate in rustc_ast_pretty, removing it cut that module’s compile time by 3 seconds.
Gleam v1.18 got released with major language-server features, better errors, build-tool upgrades, faster formatting, and numerous bit-array and codegen bug fixes.
Polymarket market-making bot cut partial-fill reaction from ~2 seconds to tens of ms by moving only the hot path to a Rust sidecar.
Casper forked rand into urandom for a simpler discoverable API, sealed RNGs, faster floats/uniforms, and stronger reproducibility.
Piotr wrote how Rust’s practical near-zero memory bugs beat absolutist purity claims; Fil-C helps some C/C++ code but has real trade-offs.
ZeroFS gained a near-pure-Rust Linux kernel module for native VFS access, cutting FUSE overhead while retaining full 9P protocol and broad filesystem features.
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Wishing you a productive month ahead.
See you next week!
John & Elley.
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