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

• Writing an OS in Rust: Updates in May 2019.
• Unsafe Code Guidelines Reference now available online.
• Actix-web 1.0 released.
• j4rs - calling Java code from Rust.
• The Governance WG is going public.
• Bzip2 in Rust - basic infrastructure and CRC32 computation.
• Evoli - an official Amethyst showcase game.
• Poking the macOS IO Kit with Rust.

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is emu, a Rust-based language for programming GPUs. Thanks to Caleb Winston 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.

• Cargo: Less duplication in activate.

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

Updates from Rust Core

283 pull requests were merged in the last week

• Introduce Rust symbol mangling scheme
• Remove GlobalArenas and use Arena instead
• Short circuit Send and Sync impls for TokenTree
• Explicitly suggest type_ascription feature
• Recover gracefully from argument with missing type or param name
• When encountering move error on an Option, suggest using as_ref
• Reword malformed attribute input diagnostics
• Apply #[must_use] lint to components of tuples
• miri: Tag static/const allocations
• Update LLVM to include fmin/fmax optimisations
• Stabilize reverse_bits feature
• Stabilize iter_nth_back feature
• Stabilize RefCell::try_borrow_unguarded
• Weak::into_raw
• Implement iter::Sum and iter::Product for Option
• Add Step::sub_usize
• BufReader: In Seek impl, remove extra discard_buffer call
• Do not print panic message on doctest failures
• cargo: Test the Resolver against the varisat Library

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 2678: Named custom cargo profiles.

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 for RFC 1789: Conversions from &mut T to &Cell<T>.
• [disposition: merge] Stabilize copy_within.
• [disposition: merge] Stabilize support for Profile-guided Optimization.
• [disposition: merge] Stabilize #![feature(repr_align_enum)] in Rust 1.37.0.
• [disposition: merge] Add std::mem::take as suggested in #61129.
• [disposition: merge] Support ? Kleene macro operator in 2015.

New RFCs

• Get type of an arbitrary expression.
• Make .. a pattern syntactically.
• Amend RFC2603 to allow mangled identifiers to start with a digit.

Upcoming Events

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• Jun 10. Auckland, NZ - Rust AKL - WASM - the past, present and future.
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Rust Jobs

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• Blockchain Runtime Engineer at Parity, Berlin, DE or remote.

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Quote of the Week

apparently I wrote Building Git to explain a complex problem to rust devs who could then help me build it in rust

/dev/horse @ jsconf eu (mountain_ghosts) on twitter

Thanks to Dos Moonen for the suggestion!

Please submit quotes and vote for next week!

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

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