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Updates from Rust Community

Official

• Announcing Rust 1.56.0 and Rust 2021

Foundation

• Member Spotlight: Tag1

Project/Tooling Updates

• Black Hat Rust October Update (now in Beta 🍾)
• SixtyFPS (GUI crate) weekly report for 24th of October 2021
• Releasing Gloo v0.4.0: Gloo is a modular toolkit for building fast, reliable Web applications and libraries with Rust and Wasm
• This week in Fluvio #10: the programmable streaming platform
• This week in Databend #13: an elastic and reliable cloud warehouse
• Rust Analyzer Changelog #100
• IntelliJ Rust Changelog #158

Observations/Thoughts

• Async on Embedded: Present & Future
• No Time for Chrono
• Pointer Fu: An adventure in the Tokio code base
• How actix-web's application state and Data extractor works internally
• Building an Emacs lisp VM in Rust
• Test-Driving the Rust Model Checker (RMC)
• Sayonara, C++, and hello to Rust!
• Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust
• Sustainable growth and visibility
• [audio] What's New in Rust 1.54 and 1.55
• [audio] Rust Web Development with Bastian Gruber

Rust Walkthroughs

• 🦀 How We Built a Cross-Platform Library with Rust
• Custom Logging in Rust using tracing and tracing-subscriber, part 2
• Builder with typestate in Rust
• Starting with Solana, Part 2
• Implementing the Health Check API Pattern with Rust
• Iced.rs tutorial: How to build a simple Rust frontend web app
• Writing a QML Application in Rust (Part 1)
• Use Rust for embedded development
• Supercharge Your NodeJS With Rust
• Implementing the Health Check API Pattern with Rust
• My ideal Rust workflow
• Getting Started with Rust on a Raspberry Pi Pico
• [series] Build Your Text Editor With Rust! Final Part
• [video] Writing a Programming Language (in Rust) 2: Branching, Literals and Addition
• [video] How to Build a Web Application using Rust — Part III
• [video] FLTK Rust: intro into the fltk-evented crate
• [video] Rust Programming - Macros Quick Dev Tips
• [video] Rewriting a C++ project in Rust to learn the language
• [video] rg3d - live coding session #1
• [video] Understand Rust's Borrow Checker in 5 Minutes

Miscellaneous

• Rustc Code Reading Club
• Writing a Programming Language (in Rust): Weekly Stream, Saturdays at 15:00~17:00 GMT+1
• A cool Rust optimization story
• Concordium’s DevX Initiative Launches Rust Maintainers Sponsorship Program
• How Linkerd retries HTTP requests with bodies
• Build a Scalable Trading Bot With Rust Over the Weekend — Part 2

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is cargo-crev, a tool to distribute security review of the crates we all depend on.

As there was no suggestion this week, llogiq is pretty thankful to himself for choosing this crate.

Please 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.

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

• wahn/rs_pbrt - [parse_blend_file] Attic Close-up
• kdr-aus/ogma - Implement filter on Str input type
• kdr-aus/ogma - Implement From<char for Str
• ockam-network/ockam - Compile to WebAssembly
• ockam-network/ockam - Ockam TCP Transport using smoltcp

Updates from the Rust Project

353 pull requests were merged in the last week

• implement split_array and split_array_mut
• normalize MIR with RevealAll before optimizations.
• automatic exponential formatting of f{32, 64} in Debug
• reject octal zeros in IPv4 addresses
• add support for artifact size profiling
• remove unnecessary condition in Barrier::wait()
• make all proc-macro back-compat lints deny-by-default
• stabilise unix_process_wait_more, extra ExitStatusExt methods
• stabilize feature saturating_div for rust 1.58.0
• remove unnecessary bound on Zip specialization impl
• deduplicate panic_fmt
• give better error for macro_rules name
• stabilize CString::from_vec_with_nul(_unchecked)
• point at overlapping impls when type annotations are needed
• add rustc lint, warning when iterating over hashmaps
• consider types appearing in const expressions to be invariant
• use the "nice E0277 errors" for !Send impl Future from foreign crate
• don't mark for loop iter expression as desugared
• change Duration::(try_)from_secs_{f32, f64} underflow error
• suggest a case insensitive match name regardless of Levenshtein distance
• make From impls of NonZero integer const
• make more From impls const (libcore)
• mark {array, slice}::{from_ref, from_mut} as const fn
• avoid overflow in VecDeque::with_capacity_in()
• fix MIRI UB in Vec::swap_remove
• implement coherence checks for negative trait impls
• make RSplit<T, P>: Clone not require T: Clone
• codegen-gcc: disable strict aliasing
• clippy: warn on structs with a trailing zero-sized array but no repr attribute
• clippy: cover Result for question_mark
• clippy: make useless_format recognize format!("")
• clippy: avoid eq_op in test code
• clippy: fix FP in missing_safety_doc lint
• clippy: fix FP: no lint when cast is coming from signum method call for cast_possible_truncation lint
• clippy: missing_safety_doc: handle 'implementation safety' headers as well
• clippy: fix match_str_case_mismatch on uncased chars

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

Multiple regressions this week, several of which were in rollups, without much to balance them out on the improvements front.

Triage done by @simulacrum. Revision range: d45ed7..3c8f001d

5 Regressions, 4 Improvements, 3 Mixed; 3 of them in rollups; 35 comparisons made in total

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:

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] Thread local Cell methods.
• [disposition: merge] Constrained Naked Functions

Tracking Issues & PRs

• [disposition: merge] Update std::env::temp_dir to use GetTempPath2 on Windows when available.
• [disposition: merge] Stabilize const_raw_ptr_deref for *const T
• [disposition: merge] Clarification of default socket flags
• [disposition: merge] use CLOCK_BOOTTIME in Instant::now
• [disposition: merge] Implement Termination for Result<Infallible, E>
• [disposition: close] Port clippy lint redundant_field_names to compiler
• [disposition: merge] GATs: Decide whether to have defaults for where Self: 'a
• [disposition: merge] Stabilize File::options()
• [disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for relaxed struct unsizing rules
• [disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for option_result_unwrap_unchecked
• [disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for destructuring_assignment
• [disposition: close] Tracking issue for slice_concat_ext stabilization

New RFCs

• Static async fn in traits

Upcoming Events

Online

• October 27, 2021, London, UK - Rust London Ockam Takeover - Rust London User Group
• October 27, 2021, Phoenix, AZ - Desert Rust Halloween - Desert Rust
• October 28, 2021, Copenhagen, DK - Hack Night #22 - Copenhagen Rust Group
• November 2, 2021, Buffalo, NY, US - First Tuesdays - Buffalo Rust Meetup
• November 9, 2021, Seattle, WA, US - Monthly Meetup - Seattle Rust Meetup
• November 10, 2021, Malaysia - Rust Meetup - Rust Malaysia

North America

• November 10, 2021, Atlanta, GA, US - Grab a beer with fellow Rustaceans - Rust Atlanta

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Quote of the Week

I think in general "force the user to think about the extra cases, and be explicit about ignoring them" is definitely idiomatic rust.

– Daniel Wagner Hall on rust-internals

Thanks to robin 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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