Add blog post about Google Summer of Code 2024 project results

[Kobzol]

This blog post describes the results of the 2024 Rust (Foundation/Project) GSoC projects. It is a follow-up to https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/05/01/gsoc-2024-selected-projects.html and https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/21/Rust-participates-in-GSoC-2024.html.

This is now ready for a final review. I plan to publish it on Thursday 7th November 2024.

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[obi1kenobi]

The cargo-semver-checks part looks quite good, thank you for writing it up!

Minor polish suggestions: one readability tweak + a few words of extra context for why the project is meaningful (not just what it did).

[Kobzol]

I drafted a description of the Cranelift register allocator project (https://github.com/rust-lang/blog.rust-lang.org/blob/b9efc93c907687ee649b5c44cb92c799a2f9157b/posts/2024-11-01-gsoc-2024-results.md#implementation-of-a-faster-register-allocator-for-cranelift).

@Amanieu @cfallin Could you please check it out and review it? Thank you!

[cfallin]

@Kobzol the writeup about the regalloc work looks great -- thanks so much for writing that!

[Kobzol]

I drafted a description of the .NET backend project (https://github.com/rust-lang/blog.rust-lang.org/blob/5c123051346736a6bdf6ae2ea8ee3dcad502b76e/posts/2024-11-01-gsoc-2024-results.md#rust-to-net-compiler---add-support-for-compiling--running-cargo-tests).

@jackh726 @FractalFir Could you please check it out and review it? Thank you!

[FractalFir]

From a first glance at this description, I'd say it is mostly OK. There are some minor things I would suggest adjusting or am a bit unsure about.

The "C_MODE" part of my project is still an experiment and is less mature than the .NET part of it.
Since that part of the text comes just after the part talking about running 95% of the core test suite,
I fear people might get confused and assume the "C" part of the project is closer to completion than it really is.

Right now, the "C_MODE" is almost capable of building the core test suite, and can pass 340 / 442 of my internal tests.
So, while it can do some things, it is still behind the .NET stuff, which I feel might be something that needs to be highlighted.

Another thing I would suggest needs some changes is the percentage of passing std tests. Long story short, my count was a bit off, and the real pass rate in std is about 89.7%.

Also, I don't know if that is worth mentioning, but those are the std/ core unit tests. The pass rate for single-file tests is similar, but I don't have the exact numbers. I am not an expert in the area, so I don't know how important that distinction is.

I am also wondering about one other thing: almost all other participants seem to use their real names. Do you think maybe my real one should be included too?

My real name (Michał Kostrubiec) has been publicly available for some time now, and the main reason I use my username is the fact that it is what I am known as. Maybe something like' Fractal Fir aka Michał Kostrubiec' would look better/more consistent? I don't know what is the standard practice in open source(handles vs names), but anything(name, handle, both) is fine by me.

Besides those very minor nitpicks, this looks more than fine :)!

[Kobzol]

@ytmimi @ding-young I created a draft of the rustfmt project description, but I'm not actually sure what was the outcome 😅 Could you please take a look? https://github.com/rust-lang/blog.rust-lang.org/blob/a7cac06c05cdb4f94939567f578af84d396757bb/posts/2024-11-01-gsoc-2024-results.md#rewriting-the-rewrite-trait

[Kobzol]

I went through the blog post again and didn't find any issues (just made some cosmetic changes). This should now be ready for a merge anytime. Whoever can approve, please do :)

[davidtwco]

This is great, I hadn't followed the GSoC projects closely and it sound like this program was a really big success for us.