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

• nom parser combinators 5.0 release: replace macros with functions, better errors.
• The typestate pattern in Rust.
• Implementing ptrace for Redox OS - part 0.
• Let's build a JavaScript engine (in Rust).
• Real Time for the Masses (RTFM) goes multi-core.
• Rust streams.
• Rust on the ESP32/ESP8266 and how to get started.
• Rust for closed-source projects.
• swym: Are we lock-free yet?

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is winit, a pure-rust cross-platform window initialization library. Thanks to Osspial 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.

• Call for Proposals is open for Rust Belt Rust 2019 until 1 July.
• Winit 0.20, the state of windowing in Rust, and a request for help.
• Request for implementation - Crates that don't exist but should. Suggest your own design and someone will pick it up.
• miniz_oxide: Some Panics cause segfaults in jemalloc when called from flate2.

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

Updates from Rust Core

172 pull requests were merged in the last week

• Introduce Let(..) in AST, remove IfLet + WhileLet and parse let chains
• Support cfg and cfg_attr on generic parameters
• librustc_data_structures: Speedup union of sparse and dense hybrid set
• Refactor miri pointer checks
• Help LLVM better optimize slice::Iter(Mut)::len
• Remove the default type of Rem::Output
• Make use of ptr::null(_mut) instead of casting zero
• Make MaybeUninit #[repr(transparent)]
• Implement nth_back for slice::{Iter, IterMut}
• Add custom nth_back to Skip
• Add functions for building raw slices to libcore
• rustdoc: Only show methods that appear in impl blocks in the Implementors sections of trait doc pages
• rustdoc: Generate implementors for all auto traits

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] Finalize syntax for slice patterns with subslices.
• [disposition: merge] Make .. a pattern syntactically.

Tracking Issues & PRs

• [disposition: merge] Stabilize type_alias_enum_variants in Rust 1.37.0.

New RFCs

• RFC for Vec::append_from_within().

Upcoming Events

Africa

• Jul 3. Johannesburg, ZA - Johannesburg Rust Meetup - informal discussions on topics related to the language.

Asia Pacific

• Jun 29. Taipei, TW - Rust Taiwan Meetup.
• Jul 1. Auckland, NZ - Rust AKL - WASM - Implementing a scalable omiscient debugger in Rust.
• Jul 3. Tokyo, JP - Tokyo Rust Meetup - Rust LT #6.
• Jul 10. Petaling Jaya, MY - Rust Meetup July 2019.

Europe

• Jun 28-29. Firenze, IT - RustLab 2019.
• Jul 10. Berlin, DE - OpenTechSchool Berlin - Rust Hack and Learn.

North America

• Jul 3. Atlanta, GA, US - Grab a beer with fellow Rustaceans.
• Jul 3. Indianapolis, IN, US - Indy.rs.
• Jul 9. Redmond, WA, US - Seattle Rust Meetup - Monthly meetup.
• Jul 10. Vancouver, BC, CA - Vancouver Rust meetup.
• Jul 11. Columbus, OH, US - Columbus Rust Society - Monthly Meeting.

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

Rust Jobs

• Senior Software Engineer (Rust) at IOTA, Remote.

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Quote of the Week

why doesn't 'static, the largest lifetime, not simply eat all the others

– @mountain_ghosts on twitter

@mountain_ghosts 'static is biggest but actually,, weakest of lifetimes, becuase it is subtype of every lifetime

'static is big soft friend

pls love and protect it

– @gankro on twitter

Thanks to Christopher Durham 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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