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The year 2021 in Dimforge and our objectives for 2022

· 9 min read
Sébastien Crozet
Sébastien Crozet

🎉🎉🎉 Happy new year 2022 everyone! 🎉🎉🎉

The year 2021 has been a very exciting for Dimforge and the Rust community at a whole! This blog post summarizes the most significant additions made in 2021 to the open-source crates for linear-algebra and physics simulation we develop for the Rust community. We also present our main objectives for 2022.

This month in Dimforge \#6 (Apr. 2021 - May. 2021)

· 6 min read
Sébastien Crozet
Sébastien Crozet

Welcome to the sixth edition of This month in Dimforge! This newsletter provides you with a summary of important updates that occurred within the Dimforge community. This includes in particular updates about the Rapier (physics engine), Salva (fluid simulation), Parry (collision-detection), nalgebra (linear algebra), and Simba (abstract algebra) crates. This sixth edition will contain updates for the months of April and May 2021.

Integrating const-generics to nalgebra 0.26

· 7 min read
Sébastien Crozet
Sébastien Crozet

Today we released the version 0.26 of our general-purpose linear-algebra crate: nalgebra 🎊

The version 1.51.0 of Rust has been released three weeks ago. That version stabilized an MVP for one of the feature we wanted the most: const-generics. Const-generics allow you to define types parametrized by const integers, chars, or booleans. One iconic example is writing a structure wrapping an array of any size:

// Example taken from the 1.51 Rust announcement.
struct Array<T, const LENGTH: usize> {
    list: [T; LENGTH]
}

This month in Dimforge \#5 (Feb. 2021 - Mar. 2021)

· 9 min read
Sébastien Crozet
Sébastien Crozet

Welcome to the fifth edition of This month in Dimforge! This newsletter provides you with a summary of important updates that occurred within the Dimforge community. This includes in particular updates about the Rapier (physics engine), Salva (fluid simulation), Parry (collision-detection), nalgebra (linear algebra), and Simba (abstract algebra) crates. This fifth edition will contain updates for the months of February and March 2021.

This month in Dimforge \#4 (Dec. 2020 - Jan. 2021)

· 6 min read
Sébastien Crozet
Sébastien Crozet

Welcome to the fourth edition of This month in Dimforge! This newsletter provides you with a summary of important updates that occurred within the Dimforge community. This includes in particular updates about the Rapier (physics engine), Salva (fluid simulation), Parry (collision-detection), nalgebra (linear algebra), and Simba (abstract algebra) crates. This fourth edition will contain updates for the months of December 2020 and January 2021.