2025-12-29— Last Week in Carbon

[josh11b]

(quiet week due to holidays & vacation)

Updates on leads issues

• Decisions
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• New issues
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• Active discussions
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Updates on proposals

• Decisions
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Updates on moderation across our community spaces (Discord and GitHub)

• 1 off-topic (personal job search) message deleted
• Activity in the past week:
  • 3 authors have pushed 3 commits to trunk, we changed 33 files with 651 additions and 368 deletions.
  • We merged 3 PRs, opened 2 PRs, closed 1 issue, and opened 0 new issues.

Activity on toolchain

• #toolchain Steady progress on getting all of the runtimes wired up
• #toolchain DWARF debug info representation of types, parameters, calling conventions
• PRs:
  • name mangling in #6533
  • C++ destructor in #6531
  • category conversion in #6535

Activity on memory safety

• #initialization Link to blog post about proposals to track initialization and other state in Rust
• #safety Safety unit #29 updated to address the MaybeUnformed case properly.
• #safety Safety unit #30 posted on "points-to and aliasing"

Other active discussions

These include Discord Chat, GitHub Discussions, or open discussion sessions.

• #6504 How to print a string
• #strategy Link to Coding Rust With Claude Code and Codex | HackerNoon blog post about how Rust compiler's feedback is very helpful for AI agents

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