David Wood

A software engineer from Scotland, with an interest in compilers and open source software; co-lead of the Rust compiler team and board of the Rust Foundation

[OpenUK @openuk_uk]

Congratulations to the shortlisted nominees in the 6th annual OpenUK Awards 2026, 🏆🍾🥂 Andy Piper, @bboreham, Daniel Gale, @davidtwco, @Dermoscopea, @floxdevelopment, @GodfreyInyama, Jan Faracik, Joe Birr-Pixton, LVFS (https://t.co/dd385XYBuk), @lowRISC, Dr @M_Hartnett, Manyfold (https://t.co/TWnTlPyaBE), Ministry of Justice UK Splink Team (@robinlinacre), @openactiveio, @coderoflagos, Dr. Ravinder Singh, Richard Purdie, Rustls, Sonia Cooper, @sourishsharma17, @universalviewer, and @UKPowerNetworks 🍾🥂🏆 #opensource #openukawards

[filtra.io @_filtra]

Pinch me! The quality of interviewees we've been getting these days is a dream for us. Just dropped a huge new Rust interview with David Wood, Rust Team Lead at @Arm. Check it out with the link below:

[David Wood @davidtwco]

I’m very pleased to announce that I’ve joined @Arm’s @rustlang team!

[David Wood @davidtwco]

Some thoughts on the shape of the Rust project after last week’s leadership summit and #RustNationUK.
https://t.co/jZsHI4iPiP

[Wesley Wiser @wesleywiser]

Awesome to see "Rust in the Windows Kernel" as a highlighted feature of today's Windows 11 Insider Preview release!

https://t.co/dXr01njAvX

#rustlang

[Wesley Wiser @wesleywiser]

I'm very pleased to announce @davidtwco is joining me in co-leading the #Rust compiler team! 🎉 Thanks Felix for your many years of mentoring and leading the team!
https://t.co/qRaQnXrgvh

[Prossimo @ProssimoISRG]

We're partnering with Rémy Rakic to continue improving Rust compile times as part of our Tools initiative. Thanks to @Google for supporting this work! Read more in a new Prossimo blog post by Rémy: https://t.co/CJtJ6MY3xV

[David Wood @davidtwco]

https://t.co/fYBb5UIYsi

[Mara @m_ou_se]

🆕🦀 About an hour ago, @rustlang 1.65.0 was released.

As is tradition, here's a thread with some of the highlights. 🧵

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[David Wood @davidtwco]

@Argorak @rustlang Our tentative plans are to use Pontoon to solicit actual translations, we just haven’t set that infrastructure up yet. Need to get all of the diagnostics into Fluent and so translatable first.

[David Wood @davidtwco]

@havvy @DeeptechGames @rustlang That’s an interesting idea, but I’m not entirely sure what additional help we could associate with a help code that we couldn’t with the error code?

[David Wood @davidtwco]

@nyuriks @rustlang Thanks, we’ve just merged a patch fixing this so it should be live shortly.

[David Wood @davidtwco]

@http40415 @rustlang We haven’t decided what we’ll call language packs yet, but probably language packs. It will be optional. Some language communities prefer translations more than others, that’s okay :)

[Rust Language @rustlang]

The diagnostics working group is looking for your help adding support for internationalization of error messages to the Rust compiler. If you're interested in contributing, check out the blog post for more details! https://t.co/TcqLddvlz9

[David Wood @davidtwco]

@xldenis is giving a talk on Cruesot, a prophetic verifier for @rustlang , at the Huawei-Edinburgh University Joint Lab next week! #rustlang
https://t.co/9tABBpir60

[David Wood @davidtwco]

@maybewaffle I’ve written some documentation at https://t.co/BPxJRRgK3r - does it clear anything up?

[Zulip organized team chat @zulip]

Zulip helps the @rustlang community have focused conversations at scale. https://t.co/QBeM4A9qNw #opensource

[const @[email protected] @oli_obk]

Today is my last day at @CosmianOfficial

I'm taking next week off, and then I'll join @nikomatsakis @pnkfelix and @ekuber at AWS to work full time on the Rust compiler/community/tools/stuff

[Wesley Wiser @wesleywiser]

Welcoming David Wood to compiler team and Jack Huey to compiler-contributors https://t.co/VibWpzcdaA