Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a systems language pursuing the trifecta: safety, concurrency, and speed. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tweet us at @ThisWeekInRust or send us an email! Want to get involved? We love contributions.

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From the Blogosphere

• Dealing With the Rust Shift in Perspective.
• rusty radio: Episode 1: A Rusty Start.
• Rust, the Language for Growth.

Tips & Tricks

• How to Use Rust with Node.js When Performance Matters. Write performance critical code in Rust and use it via FFI in Node.js.
• Effectively Using Iterators In Rust. Iterate over vector and slice types using .iter() and .into_iter().
• First Rust Program Pain (So you can avoid it…). Tips for Rust beginners on how to avoid a fight with the compiler.
• Implement Traits on Generics.
• The Unsafe Rust Programming Language. An excellent document about advanced functionality and low-level development practices in the Rust Programming Language.

In the News

• Rust 1.1 stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp.
• Tickets are on sale now for RustCamp!.

New Releases & Project Updates

• rust-timsort. Rust implementation of the modified MergeSort used in Python and Java.
• trust. Rust automated test runner.
• mongo-rust-driver. Mongo Rust driver built on top of the Mongo C driver.
• rust-ffi-omnibus. A collection of examples of using code written in Rust from other languages.
• hyper is now at v0.6. An HTTP/S library for Rust.
• rust-throw. A new experimental rust error handling library, meant to assist and build on existing error handling systems.
• burrito. A monadic IO interface in Rust.
• mimty. Fast, safe, self-contained MIME Type Identification for C and Rust.

What's cooking on master?

95 pull requests were merged in the last week.

Breaking Changes

Now you can follow breaking changes as they happen!

Other Changes

• std: Add support for Windows XP.
• Reset signal behavior before starting children with std::process. Resets Rust's SIGPIPE handler, as well as any signal mask that may have been set, before spawning a child.
• MSVC: Implement runtime support for unwinding. A key aspect is missing, however, which is that unwinding is still turned off by default for MSVC.
• Suggest missing trait bounds when a method exists but the bounds aren't satisfied.

New Contributors

• Andy Grover
• Brody Holden
• Christian Persson
• Cruz Julian Bishop
• Dirkjan Ochtman
• Gulshan Singh
• Jake Hickey
• Makoto Kato
• Yongqian Li

Final Comment Period

Every week the teams announce a 'final comment period' for RFCs which are reaching a decision. Express your opinions now. This week's RFCs entering FCP are:

• Add some of [T]’s methods to strings and vice versa.
• Implement FromIterator for the unit type.
• Rename connect to join.
• Add read_into_buf and get_buf to BufRead.
• read_all.
• Allow macros in types.
• Allow closure expressions to expand to a & or &mut temporary.

New RFCs

• Return Result from main.

Upcoming Events

• 7/7, San Diego Rust Meetup
• 7/8, Rust in Production - San Francisco
• 7/13, Seattle Rust Meetup
• 7/15, Rust Los Angeles Monthly Meetup

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