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? Tag us at @ThisWeekInRust on Twitter or @ThisWeekinRust on mastodon.social, or send us a pull request. Want to get involved? We love contributions.

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This week's crate is zeroize, a crate to securely clear secrets from memory either manually or on drop, with both methods for your types being but one #[derive] away.

Thanks to Tally 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

339 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A mixed bag of a week. 2 of the 3 regressions are connected to changes to the query system that underlies incremental compilation. The third regression is still being investigated. For all three, the impact on cycle counts that are within our noise tolerance levels There were several small-ish improvements, though PR #104963 is worth calling out: a well-factored change to how we lower the AST into HIR that had a broad positive impact. One final note: the summary-opt max-rss seems to gone up by 1.5% over the past month (perf), via a gradual climb; just something to keep our eyes on going forward.

Triage done by @pnkfelix. Revision range: 8a09420a..9db224fc

See the full report for details.

Call for Testing

An important step for RFC implementation is for people to experiment with the implementation and give feedback, especially before stabilization. The following RFCs would benefit from user testing before moving forward:

No RFCs issued a call for testing this week.

If you are a feature implementer and would like your RFC to appear on the above list, add the new call-for-testing label to your RFC along with a comment providing testing instructions and/or guidance on which aspect(s) of the feature need testing.

Approved RFCs

Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week:

Style evolution

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] Implement DerefMut for PathBuf
[disposition: merge] Find the right lower bound region in the scenario of partial order relations

New and Updated RFCs

[new] Relax const-eval restrictions

Upcoming Events

Rusty Events between 2022-12-07 - 2023-01-04 🦀

Virtual

2022-12-07 | Virtual (Indianapolis, IN, US) | Indy Rust
- Indy.rs - with Social Distancing
2022-12-07 | Virtual (Stuttgart, DE) | Rust Community Stuttgart
- Rust-Meetup
2022-12-08 | Virtual (Nürnberg, DE) | Rust Nuremberg
- Rust Nürnberg online #20
2022-12-08 | Virtual (San Francisco, CA, US) | Data + AI Online Meetup
- D3L2: The Genesis of Delta Rust with QP Hou
2022-12-10 | Virtual | Rust GameDev
- Rust GameDev Monthly Meetup
2022-12-13 | Virtual (Dallas, TX, US) | Dallas Rust
- Second Tuesday
2022-12-13 | Virtual (Rostock, DE) | Altow Academy
- Rust Meetup Rostock
2022-12-13 | Virtual (Saarbrücken, DE) | Rust-Saar
- Meetup: 25u16
2022-12-14 | Virtual (Boulder, CO, US) | Boulder Elixir and Rust
- Monthly Meetup
2022-12-24 | Virtual (Linz, AT) | Rust Linz
- Rust Meetup Linz - 28th Edition
2022-12-14 | Virtual (México City, MX) | Rust MX
- Rust y Arduino
2022-12-15 | Virtual (Stuttgart, DE) | Rust Community Stuttgart
- Rust-Meetup
2022-12-20 | Virtual (Berlin, DE) | Berlin.rs
- Rust Hack and Learn
2022-12-20 | Virtual (Washington, DC, US) | Rust DC
- Mid-month Rustful
2022-12-21 | Virtual (Vancouver, BC, CA) | Vancouver Rust
- Show & Tell: Tableturf
2022-12-27 | Virtual (Dallas, TX, US) | Dallas Rust
- Last Tuesday
2023-01-03 | Virtual (Buffalo, NY, US) | Buffalo Rust Meetup
- Buffalo Rust User Group, First Tuesdays
2023-01-04 | Virtual (Indianapolis, IN, US) | Indy Rust
- Indy.rs - with Social Distancing
2023-01-04 | Virtual (Stuttgart, DE) | Rust Community Stuttgart
- Rust-Meetup

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