Rust: Major Language Features and Tooling Updates
The Rust project merged 14 pull requests on May 10-11, 2026, including a significant new `Drop::pin_drop` API for pinned drops, a new `core::arch::return_address` intrinsic, and substantial improvements to rustdoc emission types and compiler testing infrastructure.
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Rust.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Rust
- Published: 2026-05-11T10:01:34Z
- Audio duration: PT2M13S
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Good morning, this is your Rust developer briefing for May 11th, 2026.
Yesterday saw significant activity with 14 merged pull requests bringing important language and tooling improvements.
Frank King merged the addition of `Drop::pin_drop` for pinned drops, a substantial change affecting 29 files that provides new functionality for handling drop operations on pinned data structures. This addresses tracking issue 130494 and required updates across HIR analysis, type checking, and MIR building components.
Chorman0773 merged the implementation of `core::arch::return_address`, adding a new intrinsic function that allows developers to retrieve the return address of the current function. This feature spans both Cranelift and LLVM code generation backends with comprehensive test coverage.
Fmease merged rustdoc emission type reification, replacing the hidden assumption that empty emit options meant "emit default artifacts" with an explicit system. This architectural improvement affects HTML and JSON output formats, making the documentation generation process more transparent.
The project also saw a large rollup by JonathanBrouwer consolidating 10 pull requests, including a Miri subtree…
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