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This week's edition was edited by: nasa42, brson, and llogiq.
Updates from Rust Community
News & Blog Posts
Announcing Rust 1.4. - This week in Servo 39.
- This week in Redox 4.
- Rreverrse debugging. Debugging Rust applications with rr.
- Piston-Meta. A DSL parsing library for human readable text documents.
- Let's uncomplicate!. Demistifying the
rustcbuild process. - Using Resque with Rust.
- Rust lifetimes.
Notable New Crates & Projects
- A Rust/Piston game developing tutorial.
- Rust Doom. A Doom Renderer written in Rust.
- httparse. A push parser for the HTTP 1.x protocol in Rust.
- lettre. A mailer library for Rust.
- Pebble.rs. Develop Pebble smartwatch applications in Rust.
Updates from Rust Core
94 pull requests were merged in the last week.
See the subteam report for 2015-10-31 for details.
Notable changes
- Port the standard crates to PNaCl/NaCl.
- Fix excessive memory allocation in
RawVec::reserve. - Implement conversion traits for primitive float types.
- Generalise associative operator parsing.
- Do not allow a module and tuple struct of the same name to coexist.
- Allow constant evaluation of function calls.
- Remove dependency on libgcc-dw2-1.dll from win32 executables.
- Remove contraction from region inference.
New Contributors
- angelsl
- Cameron Sun
- Charlotte Spencer
- Corentin Henry
- Daniel Rollins
- Igor Shuvalov
- Ivan Ivaschenko
- Marcell Pardavi
- pierzchalski
- Ricardo Signes
Approved RFCs
Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week:
- RFC 1291: Promote the
libccrate from the nursery. - RFC 1307: Add some additional utility methods to
OsStringandOsStr.
Final Comment Period
Every week the team announces the 'final comment period' for RFCs and key PRs which are reaching a decision. Express your opinions now. This week's FCPs are:
- Allow overlapping implementations for marker traits.
- Enable the compiler to cache incremental workproducts.
#[deprecated]for Everyone.- Improvements to the Time APIs.
New RFCs
Upcoming Events
- 11/3. São Paulo Meetup.
- 11/3. Rust Hack and Learn Hamburg.
- 11/4. PDXRust.
- 11/9. Seattle Rust Meetup.
- 11/10. San Diego Rust Meetup #10.
- 11/11. RustBerlin Hack and Learn.
- 11/16. Rust Paris.
If you are running a Rust event please add it to the calendar to get it mentioned here. Email Erick Tryzelaar or Brian Anderson for access.
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Crate & Quote of the Week
This week's Crate of the Week is alias by Huon W. Thanks go to Reddit user notriddle for the suggestion. Submit your suggestions for next week!
alias allows mutably aliasing values – which seems to actually be safe, somewhat surprisingly. Honestly, I'm a bit shocked about it myself.