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

No newsletters or research articles this week.

Official

• Announcing Rust 1.53.0
• [Inside] Rust Compiler June Steering Cycle

Project/Tooling Updates

• rust-analyzer Changelog #82
• IntelliJ Rust Changelog #149
• rustymind - Parse and visualize brainwaves with Rust
• This Week In TensorBase 8
• Supporting Miguel Ojeda's Work on Rust in the Linux Kernel
• rustc_codegen_gcc: Progress Report #1

Observations/Thoughts

• Walking through "The Java Tutorials" with Rust - boxed trait objects and the search for inheritance
• Type-checked keypaths in Rust
• Exploring ways to make async Rust easier
• Reading Back What You Wrote in Rust
• First Rust Project: A Chess Engine
• Rust vs C++ for game development
• Skipping Tests in Rust
• [ZH] Build a Gameboy emulator in Rust
• [video] Why the future of the cloud will be built on Rust - Oliver Gould, Buoyant

Rust Walkthroughs

• Rust and AWS Lambda
• Deserializing Binary Data Files in Rust
• Yet Another Snazzy Rust CLI
• Build an API in Rust (Part 2)
• Polymorphism in Rust
• Getting started with MongoDB and Redis in Rust
• Making My Website Part 1: Monitoring On A Raspberry Pi
• [ZH] Develop WebAssembly Program in Rust
• [video] Rust Fuzzing #3: How to write (better) Rust fuzz targets?
• [video] Building a Web Application with Rust - Part III - Database Manager
• [video] Building a Web Application with Rust - Part IV - HTTP Server

Miscellaneous

• Rust is not a Company
• Google Wants To See Rust Code In The Linux Kernel, Contracts The Main Developer
• Rust is the most wanted language by Godot Engine users

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is serde-encrypt, a library that adds encryption to all Serialize impls.

Thanks to Sho Nakatani for the nomination.

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 - SearchIndexer takes time indexing \target on windows
• cargo - Ability to specify the output name for a bin target different from the crate name
• cargo - Using alternative registries names in text output
• cargo - A dependency on path = "." should have a good error message

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

Updates from Rust Core

301 pull requests were merged in the last week

• use AttrVec for Arm, FieldDef, and Variant
• prefer partition_point to look up assoc items
• lint for unused borrows as part of UNUSED_MUST_USE
• miri: report an error if a #[no_mangle]/#[export_name = ...] function has the same symbol name as a built-in shim
• fix span calculation in format strings
• stabilize span_open() and span_close()
• stabilize ops::ControlFlow (just the type)
• linear interpolation
• add functions Duration::try_from_secs_{f32, f64}
• specialize io::Bytes::size_hint for more types
• optimize Eq implementation for paths
• integrate binary search codes of binary_search_by and partition_point
• futures: introduce stream::select_with_strategy
• cargo: don't allow config env to modify vars set by cargo
• cargo: avoid quadratic complexity when splitting output into lines
• rustdoc: fix ICE when using #[doc(keyword = "...")] on non-items
• rustdoc: account for const-unstable functions
• clippy: fix wrong config option being suggested for deprecated wrong_pub_self_convention lint
• clippy: improve panic message on "Found multiple rlibs" error in compile-test
• clippy: add macro_braces lint to check for irregular brace use in certain macros
• clippy: check for unbalanced tick pairs in doc_markdown lint
• clippy: move from-iter-instead-of-collect to pedantic

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A few small regressions on smaller benchmarks (e.g., helloworld), likely centered around more IR being generated in a few cases.

Triage done by @simulacrum. Revision range: d192c80..3912083

2 Regressions, 1 Improvements, 0 Mixed; 1 of them in rollups

Full report here.

Approved RFCs

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

• Type-changing struct update syntax

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: close] RFC: Add delete and delete_by methods to Iterator

Tracking Issues & PRs

• [disposition: merge] Redefine ErrorKind::Other and stop using it in std.
• [disposition: merge] When using process::Command on Windows, environment variable names must be case-preserving but case-insensitive
• [disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for std::io::Seek::rewind()
• [disposition: merge] Support forwarding caller location through trait object method call
• [disposition: merge] Tracking issue for ops::Bound::cloned()

New RFCs

• Stabilize Cargo's weak-dep-features and namespaced-features.

Upcoming Events

Online

• June 24, 2021, Berlin, DE - Rust Hack and Learn - Berline.rs
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Quote of the Week

At last, I can name my unsafe functions appropriately.

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– Freeky on r/rust

Thanks to Vincent de Phily for the suggestion!

Please submit quotes and vote for next week!

This Week in Rust is edited by: nellshamrell, llogiq, and cdmistman.

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