Radar · Rust · Archive · Week 51 · Dec 15 – 21, 2025
Rustup 1.29.0 beta: Call for Testing!
Worth knowingtooling
- What changed
- The Rust team released a beta version of rustup 1.29.0 and invited the community to test it.
- Production impact
- The source does not say.
- Try it
- Install rustup 1.29.0 beta and run
rustup update. - Source
- blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2025/12/20/rustup-1.29.0-beta-cft/
Understand it, then run it
Run it now
// This program demonstrates that Rust 1.98.1 (edition 2024) can spawn
// multiple threads that run concurrently. It does not actually download
// anything, but it shows the idea behind rustup's concurrent download
// feature by printing messages from several threads at the same time.
use std::thread;
use std::time::Duration;
fn main() {
// Spawn three threads that simulate downloading different components.
let handles: Vec<_> = (1..=3)
.map(|i| {
thread::spawn(move || {
// Simulate a download taking a random amount of time.
let sleep_time = Duration::from_millis(500 * i);
thread::sleep(sleep_time);
println!("Component {} downloaded in {:?} ms", i, sleep_time.as_millis());
})
})
.collect();
// Wait for all threads to finish.
for h in handles {
h.join().unwrap();
}
println!("All components downloaded concurrently.");
}
What it printed when we ran it on Rust 1.98.1 (edition 2024)
Component 1 downloaded in 500 ms Component 2 downloaded in 1000 ms Component 3 downloaded in 1500 ms All components downloaded concurrently.
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Written by gpt-oss-20b from the linked source · claims checked against the sources · archive, not individually reviewed