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 1.34.1. 🎉🎈
• Await syntax discussion summary.
• A (type-based) Rust cheatsheet.
• Writing an OS in Rust: Testing.
• How Rust solved dependency hell.
• Creating crossplatform Rust terminal apps.
• 10 key learnings in Rust after 30,000 lines of code.
• UWP port is in progress.
• Mozilla IRC sunset and the Rust channel.
• Giving up on wlroots-rs.
• Making Sandspiel (a falling sand game in Rust and Wasm).
• Implementing tile encoding in rav1e.
• Stacked Borrows 2 with more precise tracking of shared references.

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is cast-rs, a crate with ergonomic, checked cast functions for primitive types. Thanks to mark-i-m for the 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.

No issues were proposed for CfP.

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

Updates from Rust Core

229 pull requests were merged in the last week

• Stabilize futures_api.
• Replace HashMap implementation with SwissTable (as an external crate)
• Introduce hir::ExprKind::Use and employ in for loop desugaring
• Future-proof MIR for dedicated debuginfo
• Add f16c target_feature
• Fix sync_all on macos/ios
• Implement saturating_abs() and saturating_neg() functions for signed integer types
• Stabilize Iterator::copied
• Stabilize pointer::align_offset
• Const-stabilize std::mem::needs_drop
• cargo: Support relative paths for registries
• Set cfg(test) when rustdoc is running with --test option

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 2645: Transparent Unions and Enums.
• RFC 2565: Attributes in formal function parameter position.

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

• [disposition: merge] Allow arbitrary enums to have explicit discriminants.
• [disposition: merge] Symbol Mangling v2.
• [disposition: merge] Introduce "compiler-team contributors".
• [disposition: postpone] Changing the overflow behavior for usize in release builds to panic.

Tracking Issues & PRs

• [disposition: merge] [Stabilization] Future APIs.
• [disposition: merge] Stabilize the core::array module and reexport in std (for TryFromSliceError).
• [disposition: merge] Tracking issue for DoubleEndedIterator::nth_back.
• [disposition: merge] Experimentally add ffi_const and ffi_pure extern fn attributes.
• [disposition: merge] Implement iter::Sum and iter::Product for Option.
• [disposition: merge] std: Derive Default for io::Cursor.

New RFCs

• Add Unicode Annex 31 methods to char.

Upcoming Events

Africa

• May 2. Johannesburg, ZA - Johannesburg meetup - Everybody Borrows.

Asia Pacific

• May 6. Auckland, NZ - Rust AKL - Rust Debugging Techniques + Lightening Talks.
• May 8. Kuala Lumpur, MY - Rust Meetup May 2019.

Europe

• May 2. Munich, DE - Rust Munich - Rust libp2p.
• May 2. Zagreb, HR - Rust Meetup 201905: WebAssembly <3 Rust.
• May 6. Budapest, HU - Rust Hungary Meetup.
• May 9. Wrocław, PL - Rust Wroclaw Meetup #10.
• May 9. Berlin, DE - Rust+GNOME 2019 Hackfest#5.
• May 15. Berlin, DE - Berlin Rust Hack and Learn.
• May 15. Helsinki, FI - Rust meetup May.

North America

• May 8. Mesa, US - Desert Rust: Rust Study Group (booze.rs).
• May 9. San Diego, US - San Diego Rust May Meetup.
• May 9. Arlington, US - Rust DC — Mid-month Rustful.
• May 9. Columbus, US - Columbus Rust Society - Monthly Meeting.
• May 14. Seattle, US - Monthly meetup.
• May 15. Vancouver, CA - Vancouver Rust meetup.

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Rust Jobs

• Mozilla is hiring for the Rust Team.
• Developer Advocate at Parity, Berlin, DE or remote.

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

Quote of the Week

Clippy’s Favorite Activity Is Criticizing Clippy’s Codebase

ReductRs on twitter!

Llogiq is pretty self-congratulatory for picking this awesome quote.

Please submit quotes and vote for next week!

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

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