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Updates from Rust Community

Official

• Changes in the Core Team

Foundation

• Board Announcement: Farewell and Thanks to Florian

Project/Tooling Updates

• spa 0.3.0 release
• An update on rust/coreutils
• This week in Fluvio #20: the programmable streaming platform
• SixtyFPS (GUI crate): Changelog for 30th of January 2022
• Fornjot 0.5.0 - Code-CAD in Rust
• BonsaiDb January update: Alpha Next Week
• rustc_codegen_gcc: Progress Report #8
• Rust Analyzer Changelog #114
• IntelliJ Rust Changelog #164
• This week in Databend #27: an elastic and reliable cloud warehouse

Newsletters

• This Week in Glean: Building and Deploying a Rust library on iOS

Research

• An Empirical Study of Yanked Releases in the Rust Package Registry

Observations/Thoughts

• A new phase for the Rustc Reading Club
• The 9 indispensable features to learn for the new Rust programmer
• Uninitialized Memory: Unsafe Rust is Too Hard
• Part 2: Improving crypto code in Rust using LLVM’s optnone
• Writing the fastest GBDT library in Rust
• Async Rust vs RTOS showdown!
• Panics vs cancellation, part 1
• Rust extension traits, greppability and IDEs
• The Curious Absence of Lifetimes
• Rust has a small standard library (and that's ok)
• Curl with Rust
• [audio] Frontmatter Podcast: Matt Provost, Author of Rust From the Ground Up

Rust Walkthroughs

• How Rust helped me power through my C assignments
• (Basic) Segment Trees with beautiful diagrams!
• Sneak preview: Writing Ruby gem native extensions in Rust
• [DE] Ferris Talk #5: Tokio als asynchrone Laufzeitumgebung ist ein Fast-Alleskönner
• [audio] zbus with Zeeshan Ali
• [video] Rust Linz, January '22 - Error Handling in Rust - A Pragmatic Approach by Luca Palmieri
• [series] [video] Writing a Programming Language (in Rust) 13: Object Destructuring (Part 2) and Fixing Recursion
• [series] [video] Writing a Programming Language (in Rust) 14: Compiler Resources and Function Argument Destructuring

Miscellaneous

• Async Rust: What is a runtime? Here is how tokio works under the hood
• Implementation of CIDR routing table in Rust
• How Prime Video updates its app for more than 8,000 device types
• Building and Deploying a Rust library on iOS
• My new deployment workflow using AWS SDK for Rust
• Meilisearch raises a $5M Seed to change the world of user-facing search
• Sequoia-PGP: Looking for SQ stakeholders
• Hello, Microcontroller!
• Ferrous Systems and AdaCore to join forces on Ferrocene
• AdaCore and Ferrous Systems joining forces to support Rust
• [audio] Podcast RustTalk 001. 与 Folyd 聊他的 Rust 使用经历

Crate of the Week

This week we have two crates: update-informer, a library to embed an update check into your CLI project and blake3, a fast cryptographic hash function.

Thanks to Grachev Mikhail and Zac Burns for the suggestions!

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.

• diesel-rs/diesel - Add support for currently unsupported JSON/JSONB operators

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

Updates from the Rust Project

327 pull requests were merged in the last week

• LLVM: cherry-pick different fix for AArch64 truncating FP stores
• allow eliding GATs in expression position
• fix debuginfo for pointers/references to unsized types
• add note suggesting that predicate may be satisfied, but is not const
• ignore unwinding edges when checking for unconditional recursion
• don't suggest inaccessible fields
• implement stable overlap check considering negative traits
• improve selection errors for ~const trait bounds
• improve suggestion for escaping reserved keywords
• suggest tuple-parentheses for enum variants
• fix the unsoundness in the early_otherwise_branch mir opt pass
• store def_id_to_hir_id as variant in hir_owner
• store hir_id_to_def_id in OwnerInfo
• use indexmap to avoid sorting LocalDefIds
• codegen_gcc: correctly import foreign statics
• codegen_gcc: support -Zfunction-sections
• codegen_gcc: support 128-bit integers on platforms without native support
• codegen_gcc: support upgrading the alignment of a global variable
• accommodate yield points in the format_args expansion
• add Simd::cast
• add intrinsics::const_deallocate
• add os::unix::net::SocketAddr::from_path
• make NonNull::new const
• make char::DecodeUtf16::size_hist more precise
• improve Duration::try_from_secs_f32/64 accuracy by directly processing exponent and mantissa
• cargo: add bash completion for cargo clippy
• cargo: do not ignore --features when --all-features is present
• clippy: add default_union_representation lint
• clippy: don't lint ptr_arg for &mut _ types in trait items
• clippy: fix underflow in manual_split_once lint
• clippy: fix bad suggestion on numeric_literal
• clippy: single_match: don't lint non-exhaustive matches; support tuples

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

This was a relatively quiet week with regressions and improvements relatively equally each other out. The big exception is with a somewhat large regression in rustdoc which was needed for a large and important architectural change. This could lead to users see somewhat slower doc build times with more memory used especially in projects with large crate dependency graphs.

Triage done by @rylev. Revision range: c54dfee..1ea4851

2 Regressions, 4 Improvements, 2 Mixed; 1 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

• No RFCs entered final comment period this week.

Tracking Issues & PRs

• [disposition: merge] Rename FilenameTooLong to FilenameInvalid and also use it for Windows' ERROR_INVALID_NAME
• [disposition: merge] Add From<u8> for ExitCode
• [disposition: merge] Stabilise std::is_aarch64_feature_detected
• [disposition: merge] Impl {Add,Sub,Mul,Div,Rem,BitXor,BitOr,BitAnd}Assign<$t> for Wrapping<$t> for rust 1.61.0
• [disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for int_abs_diff
• [disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for total_cmp (on f32/f64)
• [disposition: close] Stabilize allow_fail test flag

New and Updated RFCs

• [new] RFC: Custom logo/favicon command-line flags

Upcoming Events

Rusty Events between 2/2/2022 - 3/2/2022 🦀

Online

• February 3, 2022 | Cardiff, UK | Rust Book Study Session - Smart Pointers | Rust and C++ Cardiff
• February 5 & 6, 2022 | Kyiv, UA | Write a Game on Rust | Rust Ukraine
• February 8, 2022 | Saarbrücken, DE | Meetup: 17u16 | Rust-Saar
• February 8, 2022 | Seattle, WA, US | Monthly meetup | Seattle Rust Meetup
• February 9, 2022 | Los Angeles, CA, US | Raphael Tessmer & Celeste, finding craters on a rusty planet (Virtual) | Rust Los Angeles
• February 9, 2022 | Stuttgart, DE | Rust-Meetup | Rust Community Stuttgart
• February 15, 2022 | Indianapolis, IN, US | Indy.rs - with Social Distancing | Indy Rust
• February 15, 2022 | Washington, DC, US| Mid-month Rustful | Rust DC
• February 16, 2022 | Vancouver, BC, CA | Rust Study/Hack/Hang-out Night | Vancouver Rust
• February 17, 2022 | München, DE | Rust - beyond "Hello World"| Agile Softwareentwicklung München
• February 17, 2022 | Nürnberg, DE | Rust Nürnberg online #10| Rust Nuremberg
• February 17, 2022 | Stuttgart, DE | Rust-Meetup | Rust Community Stuttgart
• February 17, 2022 | Würzburg, DE | Meet and chat about Rust | Rust Würzburg Meetup Group
• February 22, 2022 | Dublin, IE | Rust Dublin February Meetup - Rust Dublin
• February 24, 2022 | Linz, AT | Rust Meetup Linz - 19th Edition | Rust Linz

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

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• Senior Rust Backend Engineer (Remote)

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• Rust Programmer (Remote)

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• Full Stack Engineer, Rust + Typescript (Remote US)

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• Back-end developer intern - TechOps team (Rust, GRPC, PostgreSQL) (Paris, FR)

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• Engineering Manager - Rust - Core Backend
• Rust Engineer, Desktop GUI - Cryptowatch
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Tweet us at @ThisWeekInRust to get your job offers listed here!

Quote of the Week

• impl Not for ! (did you guess that "not never" is still "never"?)

– llogiq on last week's TWiR

Thanks to scottmcm for the suggestion!

Please submit quotes and vote for next week!

This Week in Rust is edited by: nellshamrell, llogiq, cdmistman, ericseppanen, extrawurst, andrewpollack, U007D, kolharsam, joelmarcey, mariannegoldin.

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