--- title: "Using Rust to build Node modules" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 448 published_at: "2022-07-28" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/448" --- Plus Node 18.7.0, getting noisy with Node, and the Bun vs Node comparisons are back. | #​448 — July 28, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/448) ![Node.js Weekly](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/v1653576619/lgfqinzbdqttwmhvljxb.png) [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/owdhbfzkqv67lqkqpylm.jpg)](https://github.blog/2022-07-26-introducing-even-more-security-enhancements-to-npm/) [Introducing _Even More_ Security Enhancements to npm](https://github.blog/2022-07-26-introducing-even-more-security-enhancements-to-npm/) — GitHub continues to up npm’s security game with enhancements that affect most of us in some way or another. 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