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Updates from Rust Community

News & Blog Posts

• Sealed Rust - A plan to bring Rust to safety critical software domains.
• Embedded WG: Embedded Rust in 2019.
• Nannou update - Vulkan, LASERs and more.
• Bzip2 to see revival under new maintainership, experimental porting to Rust.
• Auth web microservice with Rust using actix-web 1.0 - complete tutorial.
• How to use gtk-rs on Windows using the MSVC toolchain.
• Hosting embedded Rust apps on Apache Mynewt with STM32 Blue Pill.
• Speeding up builds and managing versions.

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is uom, Units of measurement is a crate that does automatic type-safe zero-cost dimensional analysis. Thanks to ehsanmok 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.

• [good first issue] blasoxide: Add more tests for level2 and level3.

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

Updates from Rust Core

242 pull requests were merged in the last week

• Stabilize Cell::from_mut and as_slice_of_cells.
• Stabilize #![feature(repr_align_enum)] in Rust 1.37.0.
• Implementation of RFC 2289 (associated_type_bounds).
• Import the cargo-vendor subcommand into Cargo.
• Support ? Kleene macro operator in 2015.
• Add std::mem::take as suggested in #61129.
• Make tuple constructors real const fns.
• syntax: Remove Deref impl from Token.
• Make i*::signum a const fn.
• Remove useless allocations in macro_rules follow logic.
• Minimize use of #![feature(custom_attribute)].
• parser: Remove Deref impl from Parser.
• Change visit api.
• Don't allow using const fn arguments as "args_required_const".
• Support Rvalue::{Ref,Len} and Deref.
• Fix integer overflow in rotate_left.
• On TerminatorKind::DropAndReplace still handle unused_mut correctly.
• Use LLVM intrinsics for floating-point min/max.
• Add new diagnostic writer using annotate-snippet library.
• Add Bound::cloned().
• Refactor TypeVariableOrigin.
• Replace linear token counting macros with optimized implementation.
• Suggest using as_ref on *const T.
• Re-implement async fn drop order lowering.
• syntax: Keep token span as a part of Token.

Approved RFCs

Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week:

No RFCs were approved this week.

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] Expose the type_name intrinsic.

Tracking Issues & PRs

• [disposition: merge] Support cfg and cfg_attr on generic parameters.
• [disposition: merge] Stabilize underscore_const_names in 1.37.0.
• [disposition: merge] Stabilize support for Profile-guided Optimization.

New RFCs

• Generic Pointer to Field.

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Quote of the Week

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

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