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Updates from Rust Community

Official

• Announcing Rust 1.54.0
• The push for GATs stabilization
• [Inside] Rust Compiler August Steering Cycle

Project/Tooling Updates

• IntelliJ Rust Changelog #152
• What's new in IntelliJ Rust
• rust-analyzer Changelog #88
• GCC Rust Monthly Report #8 July 2021
• rustc_codegen_gcc: Progress Report #2
• Rust on Espressif chips
• ConnectorX: accelerate data loading from databases to dataframes
• This week in SixtyFPS (a Rust GUI toolkit)
• This week in Fluvio 1: the programmable streaming platform
• This week in Datafuse #1
• This Week In TensorBase 14

Observations/Thoughts

• 15k inserts/s with Rust and SQLite
• Deep Learning in Rust with GPU using onnxruntime-rs
• Rewriting my mobile game in Rust targeting WASM
• How to write really slow Rust code
• Rust: First Thoughts
• 5 Reasons Why You Should Start Using Rust for Personal Projects
• A Borrowck Battle to Remember
• [audio] Open Source Security Episode 282 - The security of Rust: who left all this awesome in here?

Rust Walkthroughs

• Async Rust From The Ground Up: A Simple Web Server
• Implementing Base64 from scratch with Rust
• Improvements for #[doc] attributes in Rust
• How to deploy Rust on Heroku (with Docker)
• Rust #7: Command-Line interfaces
• Adding our own custom statement to Rust language
• Core dump for Rust
• Zero to Production in Rust #9: Naive Newsletter Delivery
• Interacting with data from FFI in Rust
• How I built End-to-End Encrypted Messaging in 51 lines of Rust, using the Ockam crate
• [PT] Resumo: Closure no Rust
• [ZH-CN] Tokio Internals - 源码解读和设计分析

Miscellaneous

• Rust is the most loved language, SIX YEARS IN A ROW. StackOverflow Survey 2021 is out!
• Rust Module of the Week!
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate (Ralf Jung) receives ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
• Implementing a BLT parser by hand in Rust (vs pest and combine): OpenTally dev log
• Rust on RISC-V BL602: Is It Sunny?
• Rust Design FAQ for C++ Programmers
• 🦀 Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Guide in Rust
• betterCode Rust Conference announced (October 13)

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is sycamore, a crate for making web applications using WebAssembly..

Thanks to Luke Chu for the self-suggestion.

Submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Module of the Week

Launching this week is Rust Module of the Week with std::fs Part 1. Contribution and feedback welcome here.

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.

• vandenheuvel/relp - A faster implementation of Markowitz' pivot rule in LU factorization
• vandenheuvel/relp - Parsing the LP file format
• ockam-network/ockam - Make Rust Errors more idiomatic
• ockam-network/ockam - File Transfer over end-to-end encrypted secure channels

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

Updates from Rust Core

324 pull requests were merged in the last week

• #[derive(Default)] on enums with a #[default] attribute (RFC #3107)
• fix issue with autofix for ambiguous associated function from Rust 2021 prelude when struct is generic
• add flag to configure large_assignments lint
• make const panic!("..") work in Rust 2021
• suggest removing unnecessary &mut as help message
• suggest ; on parse error where applicable
• fix invalid suggestions for non-ASCII characters in byte constants
• tweak opaque type mismatch error
• bail on any found recursion when expanding opaque types
• polonius: compute subset errors everywhere
• MIR borrowck does not generate lifetime variables for 'static lifetimes during opaque type resolution
• tweak borrowing suggestion in for loop
• remove unsound TrustedRandomAccess implementations
• BTree: lazily locate leaves in rangeless iterators
• partially stabilize const_slice_first_last
• stabilize core::task::ready!
• stabilize const_fn_transmute, const_fn_union
• implement fold() on array::IntoIter to improve flatten().collect() perf
• optimize fmt::PadAdapter::wrap
• remove P: Unpin bound on impl Future for Pin
• futures: use futuresordered in join_all
• clippy: cover Result on map_flatten lint
• clippy: fix while_let_on_iterator

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

Quiet week for performance, with no large changes. Regressions are limited to just a few benchmarks.

Triage done by @simulacrum. Revision range: 998cfe5..3354a44

2 Regressions, 0 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:

• Stabilize Cargo's weak-dep-features and namespaced-features.
• RFC: Introduce concat_bytes!() to join [u8] and byte str analogous to concat! for str

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 the final comment period.

Tracking Issues & PRs

• [disposition: merge] Stabilize Vec<T>::shrink_to
• [disposition: merge] impl Default, Copy, Clone for std::io::Sink and Empty
• [disposition: merge] impl Pattern for char array
• [disposition: merge] Weaken guarantee around advancing underlying iterators in zip

New RFCs

• RFC: Backtrace in core

Upcoming Events

Online

• August 5, 2021, Berlin, DE - Rust Hack and Learn - Berline.rs
• August 9, 2021, Seattle, WA, US - Monthly meetup - Seattle Rust Meetup
• August 10, 2021, Dublin, IE - Rust Dublin August Remote Meetup - Rust Dublin
• August 18, 2021, Denver, CO, US - Level up our Rust skills by building an ECS by Brooks Patton - Rust Denver
• August 18, 2021, Vancouver, BC, CA - Solving LeetCode Problems with Rust - Vancouver Rust
• August 19, 2021, Manchester, UK - Rust Manchester - Speeding Up the Snake: Extending Python with Rust

North America

• August 11, 2021, Atlanta, GA, US - Grab a beer with fellow Rustaceans - Rust Atlanta

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

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

Parity Technologies

• Multiple Rust engineering positions available

Travala

• Senior Blockchain Engineer

ChainSafe

• Rust Developer (Remote)

Kollider

• Junior Backend Engineer (Remote)
• Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)

Kraken

• Senior Backend Engineer - Rust - Core Backend (Remote)
• Senior Banking Engineer - Rust (Remote)

Subspace Labs

• Several Rust positions available

Quote of the Week

Sadly, this week saw no quote of the week nominations.

Please submit quotes and vote for next week!

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

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