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  Cargo now has unstable support for detecting unused dependencies. For its most basic form, you can run: ``` cargo +nightly check -Zcargo-lints --workspace --all-targets ``` See https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/cargo/guide/build-performance.html#removing-unused-dependencies for more details #rustlang

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  Notification backlog progress: - Day start: 95 - Day end: 80 Additional accomplishments: - https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/16700 - https://github.com/toml-rs/toml/pull/1116 - https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/16702

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  Notification backlog progress: - Day start: 89 - Day end: 87 Additional accomplishments: - https://github.com/winnow-rs/winnow/pull/876 - https://github.com/winnow-rs/winnow/pull/878 - https://github.com/winnow-rs/winnow/pull/879 - https://github.com/winnow-rs/winnow/pull/880

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  Notification backlog progress: - Day start: 87 - Day end: 79 Additional accomplishments: - https://github.com/Embers-of-the-Fire/cargo-dlx/pull/13 - https://github.com/Embers-of-the-Fire/cargo-dlx/pull/14 - https://github.com/assert-rs/assert_cmd/pull/281 - https://github.com/assert-rs/assert_cmd/pull/282 - https://github.com/assert-rs/snapbox/pull/431

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  My job role has changed, making me no longer sponsored full time for undirected Rust development. Almost 5 years is a good run and I appreciate what my company has allowed me to do in that time and for still providing me a role at the conclusion of that run. I will be needing to scale back my role on the Cargo team and the maintenance of my crates. What this will look like exactly? I'm not sure yet. Obvious answers are that I will no longer be writing the This Development in Cargo bl...

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  I've been organizing my lessons learned in writing readable code as a Rust Style Guide: https://epage.github.io/dev/rust-style/ This is more for organizing my thoughts and maybe having to reference back to when discussing how to improve the readability of code and not something where every items needs to be strictly enforced. I also suspect I could put more time into the motivations for some of the items. Even then, I expect not everyone will agree with every point. Any principles or...

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  Cargo Call for Testing: the build-dir is changing and we need help with people testing it for issues, particularly in identifying tools and processes that rely on unspecified implementation details of Cargo. See https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/13/call-for-testing-build-dir-layout-v2/ #rustlang