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Updates from Rust Community

Official

• Please welcome The 8472 and Ashley Mannix to Library Contributors

Foundation

• Rust Foundation Announces Cloud Compute Program
• Tag1 Joins the Rust Foundation as the First Silver Member
• Rust Foundation Taps Rebecca Rumbul as Executive Director & CEO
• Hello Everyone! How Can I Help?

Project/Tooling Updates

• Rust Analyzer Changelog #103
• SixtyFPS (GUI crate): Changelog for 14th of November 2021
• Mononym: Type-Level Named Values in Rust
• Quinn 0.8.0
• BonsaiDb November update: Working towards alpha 1
• This week in Databend #16: an elastic and reliable cloud warehouse
• This week in Fluvio #13: the programmable streaming platform
• Announcing cargo-sonar

Observations/Thoughts

• 8 Ways to backdoor a crate in Rust for fun and profit
• Rust Adventures: Abusing Serde
• Rust Iterator Items: An exploration of syntax
• Async Cancellation I
• The Rust compiler has gotten faster again
• Learning Rust For Embedded Systems
• What is an async runtime?
• Top 10 Rust Cargo Commands
• [audio] Tokio Ecosystem with Alice Ryhl
• [series] [video] Flutter Backend using Rust - Flying High with Flutter #32

Rust Walkthroughs

• A Data Pipeline for Go Trains Delay Analysis — Part 2
• Monitoring Rust web application with Prometheus and Grafana
• Rust data structures with circular references
• Testing multiple implementations of a trait in Rust
• Introducing hRPC: a simple RPC system for user-facing APIs
• Rust on MIPS64 Windows NT 4.0
• How to get started with Rust for RISC-V Linux
• [ZH] Rust Reading Club Part 1
• [video] Rust Web Development - Warp Introduction (by example)
• [video] Getting started with opencv on Rust
• [series] [video] Getting started with Rust 🦀 2021: 8. Building a web app with Rust
• [series] [video] Writing a Programming Language (in Rust) 7: Function calls (Part 3)

Miscellaneous

• 1Password 8 arrives on Windows with a new design and big performance improvements
• [audio] Day0 Podcast - Rust in the Web? A Special Guest and some Bad Crypto

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is starship, a fast featureful customizable UNIX terminal prompt.

Thanks to matchai for the suggestion!

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.

Updates from the Rust Project

273 pull requests were merged in the last week

• proc_macro: add an expand_expr method to TokenStream (literals only for now)
• type inference for inline consts
• add support for specifying multiple clobber_abi in asm!
• LLVM: fix nondeterminism in debuginfo generation
• don't abort compilation after giving a lint error
• do not emit overlap errors for impls failing the orphan check
• implement diagnostic for String conversion
• miri: detect uninitialized integers and floats
• re-enable copy(_nonoverlapping) debug-checks
• specialize array cloning for Copy types
• replace Copy/Clone compiler magic on arrays with library impls
• optimize BinaryHeap::extend from Vec
• optimize Eq and Hash for Path/PathBuf
• optimize pattern matching
• stabilize const_raw_ptr_deref for *const T
• stabilize format args capture
• extend the const swap feature
• don't destructure args tuple in format_args!
• portable-simd: use new bitmask intrinsics with byte arrays
• portable-simd: add Simd::from_slice
• portable-simd: rotate_{left,right} -> rotate_lanes_{left,right}
• clippy: add Clippy version to Clippy's lint list
• clippy: add minimum supported Rust version to deprecated_cfg_attr
• clippy: fix explicit_counter_loop suggestion for non-usize types
• clippy: fix semicolon_if_nothing_returned FP on let-else stmts
• clippy: fix suggestion for deref expressions in redundant_pattern_matching
• clippy: lint for bool to integer casts in cast_lossless
• clippy: make let_underscore_lock also detect parking_lot locks
• clippy: new lint index_refutable_slice to avoid slice indexing
• clippy: swap lints now check if there is no_std or no_core attribute
• clippy: option_if_let_else: don't expand macros in suggestion
• rustup: optimization: parse manifest only once

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A large amount of noise in the comparisons this week, likely due to new probabilistic query hash verification increasing likelihood of changes in each benchmark; solutions are being tracked in rustc-perf#1105.

Otherwise, though, the week largely amounted to a neutral one for performance. There were some regressions, particularly in doc builds, as a result of the addition of portable SIMD. These are relatively speaking minor and primarily impact small crates.

Triage done by @simulacrum. Revision range: eee8b9c7..934624f

5 Regressions, 2 Improvements, 6 Mixed; 2 of them in rollups

41 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] Add RFC float-next-up-down.

Tracking Issues & PRs

• [disposition: merge] #![feature(maybe_uninit_extra,const_maybe_uninit_write)]
• [disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for const-initialized thread locals
• [disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for NonZeroUn::is_power_of_two (feature nonzero_is_power_of_two)
• [disposition: merge] Tracking issue for #![feature(maybe_uninit_extra,const_maybe_uninit_write)]

New RFCs

• Add std::inputln()
• return position impl trait in traits

Upcoming Events

Rusty Events between 11/17-12/01 🦀

Online

• November 17, 2021, Vancouver, BC, CA - Borrowing and Lifetimes through Metaphors - Vancouver Rust
• November 17, 2021, Houston, TX, US - A Functional Introduction to Rust - Houston Functional Programming User Group
• November 17, 2021, Los Angeles, CA, US - Live Coding Session: Mob Programming a Rust Code Kata - Rust Los Angeles
• November 19, 2021, IR - The Second Rust Iran online meetup - Rust Iran Meetup
• November 20, 2021, RustFest Global 2021: Rust In Arts Edition - RustFest
• November 23, 2021, Berlin, DE - Rust Hack and Learn - Berline.rs
• November 30, 2021, Dallas, TX, US - Last Tuesday - Dallas Rust

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Quote of the Week

If a normal add is a waffle iron , SIMD add is a double or quadruple waffle iron. You can make 2 or 4 or more waffles at the same time.

In case of waffles it would be called SIMW: S ingle I ron, M ultiple W affles.

It's not multithreading - because you open and close the waffle iron for all the waffles at the same time.

– /u/EarthyFeet on /r/rust

Editors note: Do yourself a favor, click the link and read the whole thread, it's pure gold (chef's kiss).

Thanks to Stephan Sokolow for the suggestion!

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