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

• Introduction to Rust web applications.
• This month in Rust GameDev #1 - August 2019.
• HHVM is rewriting some of its OCaml code to Rust.
• Announcing cargo-udeps.
• Announcing structopt 0.3.
• Semantic validation in Rust.
• Low power NB-IoT on STM32 Blue Pill with Apache Mynewt and embedded Rust.

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is cargo-udeps, a cargo subcommand to find unused dependencies.

Thanks to Christopher Durham 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

214 pull requests were merged in the last week

• rustc: Handle modules in "fat" LTO more robustly
• Add default serialization for Idents
• Correctly suggest adding bounds to impl Trait argument
• Strip code to the left and right in diagnostics for long lines
• Do not complain about unused code when used in impl Self type
• Simplify eager normalization of constants
• miri: Stacked Borrows: Don't read from memory during retagging
• miri: detect too large dynamically sized objects
• Small improvement for Ord implementation of integers
• Improve Rustdoc's handling of procedural macros
• crates.io: Show right-hand column for yanked versions to crate owners

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 2360: hint::bench_black_box.

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 udp_peer_addr.
• [disposition: merge] Specify: int->float and f32->f64 round to nearest, overflow to infinity.
• [disposition: merge] Stabilize bind_by_move_pattern_guards in Rust 1.39.0.
• [disposition: merge] Make abs, wrapping_abs, overflowing_abs const functions.
• [disposition: merge] Stabilize Vec::new and String::new as const fns.

New RFCs

• Collection Transmute.
• Stabilize #[unwind].

Upcoming Events

Asia Pacific

• Sep 11. Selangor, MY - Rust Malaysia Meetup September 2019.

Europe

• Sep 18. Berlin, DE - OpenTechSchool Berlin - Rust Hack and Learn.

North America

• Sep 10. Detroit, MI, US - Detroit Rust - September Detroit Rust at the Altimetrik Collider.
• Sep 12. Columbus, OH, US - Columbus Rust Society - Monthly Meeting.
• Sep 12. San Diego, CA, US - San Diego Rust September Meetup.
• Sep 18. Portland, OR, US - PDXRust - Hack Night (not the usual meetup!).
• Sep 18. Vancouver, BC, CA - Vancouver Rust meetup.
• Sep 20-21. Denver, CO, US - Colorado Gold Rust.

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

• Blockchain Runtime Engineer at Parity, Berlin, DE or remote.
• Senior Software Engineer at ConsenSys R&D, Remote.

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

Quote of the Week

Threads are for working in parallel, async is for waiting in parallel.

– ssokolow on /r/rust

Thanks to Philipp Oppermann 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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