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content/posts/newsletter-017/index.md

@@ -488,6 +488,53 @@ in [this Amethyst forum thread][thesis-thread].
 
 ## Library & Tooling Updates
 
+### [This Month in Mun][mun-december]
+
+[![Mun logo](mun-logo.png)][Mun]
+
+[Mun] is a scripting language for gamedev focused on quick iteration times
+that is written in Rust.
+
+November went by without the usual monthly update from the Mun team, as they
+were unable to make much headway. Instead they posted a slightly different
+[blog][mun-november], expressing their desire to add a third developer to the
+Mun Core Team, whom they are willing to fund themselves - albeit a token
+amount.
+
+The team was able to start ramping back up during the holiday; those
+[December updates][mun-december] include:
+
+- language support for `use` statements;
+- Rust version updates and bugfixes.
+
+[Mun]: https://mun-lang.org
+[mun-november]: https://mun-lang.org/blog/2020/12/07/this-month-november
+[mun-december]: https://mun-lang.org/blog/2021/01/05/this-month-december
+
+### [Kira]
+
+[Kira] by [@tesselode] is an audio library designed to help create expressive
+audio for games. It aims to fill the holes in many game engines' built-in audio
+APIs with features for creating seamless music loops and scripting audio events.
+
+Kira v0.2.0 and v0.3.0 were released recently with quite a few improvements:
+
+- Arrangements for stitching together multiple sounds and better seamless looping
+- Per-sequence custom event types
+- Groups for controlling multiple instances at a time
+- Audio streams for sending arbitrary audio data to the mixer
+- Lots of smaller features and workflow improvements
+
+Kira v0.4.0 is in the works with an API refactor, serde support for config
+structs, and WASM support.
+
+[Kira]: https://github.com/tesselode/kira
+[@tesselode]: https://twitter.com/tesselode
+
+_Discussions:
+[/r/rust](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/kkf1jz/kira_game_audio_library_v030_persequence_custom/),
+[Twitter](https://twitter.com/tesselode/status/1342878087990685700)_
+
 ### [raw-gl-context]
 
 [raw-gl-context] is a cross-platform library for OpenGL context creation which
@@ -501,6 +548,40 @@ macOS, and X11.
 [RawWindowHandle]: https://github.com/rust-windowing/raw-window-handle
 [winit]: https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit
 
+### [SPIR-Q] v0.4.10
+
+[SPIR-Q] is a light-weight SPIR-V query library which supports one-pass shader
+parsing and reflection. The latest release, version 0.4.10, introduced customized
+shader auditing by allowing the users to hook and to inspect the instructions
+SPIR-Q has worked on, while with all access to its reflection intermediates.
+
+For more information, please refer to [the original post][spirq-reddit].
+
+[SPIR-Q]: https://github.com/penguinliong/spirq-rs
+[spirq-reddit]: https://reddit.com/r/rust_gamedev/comments/kgv4gh/spirq_0410
+
+### [rust-gpu]
+
+![A collage of various shadertoy.com shaders built with rust-gpu.](rust-gpu-shaders.jpeg)
+_Various shaders from shadertoy.com ported to Rust and built with rust-gpu._
+
+[rust-gpu] is a new codegen backend by Embark Studios for Rust, aimed at making
+Rust a first class language for writing GPU shaders! This past month was the
+release of rust-gpu 0.2, including a tonne of new features and capabilities.
+
+Some of the highlights include:
+
+- [You can build and test your shaders on the web.][rust-gpu-web] Thanks to SHADERed.
+- [Support for accessing and sampling textures][rust-gpu-textures].
+- [Initial support for compute shaders][rust-gpu-compute].
+- [Rust's new `asm!` macro now supports writing SPIR-V][rust-gpu-asm].
+
+[rust-gpu]: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-gpu
+[rust-gpu-web]: https://shadered.org/blog?id=4
+[rust-gpu-textures]: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-gpu/pull/276
+[rust-gpu-compute]: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-gpu/pull/195
+[rust-gpu-asm]: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-gpu/pull/254
+
 ### [Egui]
 
 ![Egui emojis](egui.gif)