Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. 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

Official

[video] 2022-03-21 Cross Team Collaboration Fun Times (CTCFT)

Foundation

Project/Tooling Updates

Observations/Thoughts

Rust Walkthroughs

Miscellaneous

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is heph, an event-driven, non-blocking I/O, share-nothing actor framework.

Thanks to Cole Lawrence 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.

CAD97/tracing-filter

Collecting usage desires

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

Updates from the Rust Project

287 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

Very quiet week for performance, with just one statistically significant change landing in the last week. This change was a regression, though primarily in stress tests, and was a result of a soundness fix.

Triage done by @simulacrum. Revision range: 3ba1ebea..3ea4493

1 Regressions, 0 Improvements, 0 Mixed; 0 of them in rollups 37 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:

Add vendor-specific suffixes to v0 mangling RFC 2603

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.

Upcoming Events

Rusty Events between 2022-03-23 - 2022-04-20 🦀

Virtual

2022-03-23 | Egg Harbor City, NJ, US | Neighborhood Math Club
- The Early Rustacean Gets The Worm!
2022-03-24 | Charlottesville, VA, US | Charlottesville Rust Meetup
- Embedded Rust reaching out--Learn how Rust can interact with the outside world
2022-03-24 | Linz, AU | Rust Linz
- Rust Meetup Linz - 20th Edition
2022-03-29 | Berlin, DE | Berline
- Rust Hack and Learn Tuesday
2022-03-29 | Dallas, TX, US | Dallas Rust
- Last Tuesday
2022-03-30 | México City, MX | Rust MX
- Platica Marzo 2022 - Reescribir o no reescribir aplicaciones en Rust
2022-04-05 | Beijing, CN | WebAssembly and Rust Meetup (Rustlang)
- Monthly WasmEdge Community Meeting, a CNCF sandbox WebAssembly runtime
2022-04-05 | Buffalo, NY, US | Buffalo Rust Meetup
- Buffalo Rust User Group, First Tuesdays
2022-04-05 | Denver, CO, US | Rust Denver
- Using Futures to wrap an unsafe USB API to play audio directly - with live stream
2022-04-06 | Egg Harbor City, NJ, US | Neighborhood Math Club
- The Early Rustacean Gets The Worm!
2022-04-06 | Indianapolis, IN, US | Indy Rust
- Indy.rs - with Social Distancing
2022-04-07 | Nürnberg, DE | Rust Nuremberg
- Rust Nürnberg online #12
2022-04-12 | Dallas, TX, US | Dallas Rust
- Second Tuesday
2022-04-12 | Seattle, WA, US | Seattle Rust Meetup
- Monthly Meetup
2022-04-13 | Boulder, CO | Boulder Elixir and Rust
- Monthly Meetup
2022-04-13 | Egg Harbor City, NJ, US | Neighborhood Math Club
- The Early Rustacean Gets The Worm!
2022-04-13 | Munich, DE | Rust Munich
- Rust Munich 2022 / 1 - hybrid
2022-04-19 | Washington, DC, US | Rust DC
- Mid-month Rustful
2022-04-20 | Vancouver, BC, CA | Vancouver Rust
- Rust Study/Hack/Hang-out night

Europe

2022-04-12 | Berlin, DE | Rust Berlin
- Rust and Tell - an onsite event | Alt Link
2022-04-13 | Munich, DE | Rust Munich
- Rust Munich 2022 / 1 - hybrid
2022-04-14 | Cambridge, UK | Cambridge Rust Meetup
- Cambridge Rust Reboot 2

North America

2022-04-05 | Denver, CO, US | Rust Denver
- Using Futures to wrap an unsafe USB API to play audio directly - with live stream
2022-04-13 | Atlanta, GA, US | Rust ATL
- Grab a beer with fellow Rustaceans
2022-04-14 | Columbus, OH, US | Columbus Rust Society
- Monthly Meeting
2022-04-19 | San Francisco, CA, US | San Francisco Rust Study Group
- Rust Hacking in Person

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.