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 a pull request. Want to get involved? We love contributions.

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Updates from Rust Community

News & Blog Posts

• 🎈🎉 Announcing Rust 1.27.2. 🎉🎈
• Futures 0.3.0-alpha.1 is released with support for async/await.
• Game studio Ready At Dawn switching to Rust for all new development.
• Multi-line search is coming to ripgrep.
• Wayland-rs 0.21: Pure rust implementation.
• A static web app in Rust.
• Writing a GPU-accelerated path tracer in Rust - part 3.
• Creating CLI apps in Rust is super easy.
• Deploying Rust with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Natively run OCaml from Rust.
• Rust concurrency patterns: communicate by sharing your Sender.
• Thoughts on compile-time function evaluation and type systems.
• On impl blocks, injection and surjection in Rust.
• Rebooting the network services working group.
• Hello Content-o-Tron. Editorial assistance and technical reviews of draft blog posts.
• 2018 Edition end of week post (2018-07-20).

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is rav1e, the fastest and safest AV1 encoder from Xiph.Org Foundation. Thanks to nasa42 for suggestion!

Submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Call for Participation

Always wanted to contribute to open-source projects but didn't know where to start? Every week we highlight some tasks from the Rust community for you to pick and get started!

Some of these tasks may also have mentors available, visit the task page for more information.

• How to help test the 2018 edition.
• bitwarden_rs: Looking for wannabe rustaceans, that'd like to get their feet wet.
• Get started with these beginner-friendly issues.

If you are a Rust project owner and are looking for contributors, please submit tasks here.

Updates from Rust Core

151 pull requests were merged in the last week

• Cargo: Import cargo fix directly in to Cargo.
• Implement existential types.
• Overhaul exit codes for rustc and rustdoc.
• rustc: Stabilize #[wasm_import_module] as #[link(...)].
• Stabilize lint handling in rustdoc.
• Deprecation of str::slice_unchecked(_mut).
• Lint async identifiers in 2018 preparation mode.
• rustc: Enable use_extern_macros in 2018 edition.
• Implement statfs for dragonfly, freebsd and openbsd.
• Speed up SparseBitMatrix use in RegionValues.
• mem::swap the obvious way for types smaller than the SIMD optimization's block size.
• Cargo: Don't warn about ignored files in cargo-fix.
• rustc: Work around an upstream wasm ThinLTO bug.
• Allow clippy to be installed with make install.
• regex: expose lower level search APIs.
• Implement rfc 1789: Conversions from &mut T to &Cell<T>.

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 2289: Associated type bounds of form MyTrait<AssociatedType: Bounds>.

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.

RFCs

No RFCs are currently in final comment period.

Tracking Issues & PRs

• [disposition: merge] Tracking issue: RFC 2103 - attributes for tools.
• [disposition: merge] Tracking issue for ToOwned::clone_into (toowned_clone_into).
• [disposition: merge] Modularize crate-local #[macro_export] macro_rules.

New RFCs

• Fix the Error trait.
• Make AcqRel universally usable as ordering mode.

Upcoming Events

Online

• Jul 31. Rust Community Content Subteam Meeting at #rust-content on irc.mozilla.org.
• Aug 1. Rust Events Team Meeting in Telegram.
• Aug 1. Rust Community Team Meeting in Discord.
• Aug 8. Rust Community Team Meeting in Discord.

Africa

• Aug 7. Johannesburg, ZA - Monthly Meetup of the Johannesburg Rustaceans.

Europe

• Aug 1. Cologne, DE - Rust Cologne.
• Aug 8. Berlin, DE - Binding to Rust from everything.
• Aug 8. Berlin, DE - OpenTechSchool - Rust Hack and Learn.

North America

• Jul 29. Mountain View, US - Open Table / Icebreaker: what projects are you working on.
• Jul 31. Dallas, US - Last Tuesday Meetup.
• Aug 1. Indianapolis, US - Indy.rs.
• Aug 1. Atlanta, US - Grab a beer with fellow Rustaceans.
• Aug 5. Mountain View, US - Open Table / Icebreaker: what projects are you working on.
• Aug 8. Vancouver, CA - Rust Study/Hack/Hang-out night.
• Aug 9. Arlington, US - Rust DC - Mid-month Rustful.
• Aug 9. Columbus, US - Columbus Rust Society - Monthly Meeting.
• Aug 17. Portland, US - RustConf 2018.

South America

• Jul 28. Florianópolis, BR - 2º Encontro Rust Floripa.

If you are running a Rust event please add it to the calendar to get it mentioned here. Email the Rust Community Team for access.

Rust Jobs

• Rust Engineer at Commure, Inc. (San Francisco, Boston, Montreal).

Tweet us at @ThisWeekInRust to get your job offers listed here!

Quote of the Week

I’ve just realized that “guarantees memory safety in the presence of bugs” is a nice way to describe Rust to C/C++ folks

– matklad.

Thanks to TomP for the suggestion!

Please submit your quotes for next week!

This Week in Rust is edited by: nasa42 and llogiq.