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Updates from Rust Community

Official

• Clippy: Deprecating feature = "cargo-clippy"
• Updated baseline standards for Windows targets

Project/Tooling Updates

• Replacing PyO3's API without breaking everything downstream
• rust-analyzer changelog #223
• rust-gcc February 2024 Monthly report
• godot-rust February 2024 dev update
• Fluvio v0.11.5 Release Updates
• sshd-openpgp-auth version 0.3.0 and ssh-openpgp-auth version 0.2.2 as updates to the tooling providing OpenPGP based authentication for SSH host keys

Observations/Thoughts

• Borrow checking without lifetimes
• How to speed up the Rust compiler in March 2024
• Code review in the Rust compiler
• Rust thread_local!s are surprisingly expensive
• Designing an Async Runtime for WASI 0.2

Rust Walkthroughs

• Storing borrowed data in trait objects
• Rust's early vs. late lifetime binding
• How moving from Pandas to Polars made me write better code without writing better code
• A Full Stack SaaS Template with Loco
• Async Rust in a Nutshell
• Real-time Streaming Analytics with Fluvio, DeepCausality, and Rust
• [video] Modern All Rust Stack - Dioxus, Axum, Warp, SurrealDB
• [video] Serverless Data Pipelines in Rust by Michele Vigilante
• [FR] [video] Rust Lyon Meetup #8 - Impl Snake for Micro:bit — Cyril MARPAUD

Miscellaneous

• Czech Rust community index
• Launching RustRover: JetBrains’ Investment in Rust
• [audio] RustShip: Rust in Art with Lisa Passing

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is srgn, a mix of tr, sed, rip-grep and tree-sitter.

Thanks to Alex Povel for the self-suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

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.

Call for Participation; projects and speakers

CFP - Projects

Always wanted to contribute to open-source projects but did not 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.

• Ockam - Output for both ockam project ticket and ockam project enroll is improved, with support for --output json
• Ockam - Syntax highlighting for fenced code blocks, in command help output, on Linux works
• Ockam - Command - refactor to use typed interfaces to implement commands for kafka services
• ZeroCopy - Don't generate warning when deriving on deprecated type
• ZeroCopy - Test the output of zerocopy-derive
• ZeroCopy - [CI] Check semver compatibility with all target platforms, not just the host platform
• ZeroCopy - Inline many trait methods (in zerocopy and in derive-generated code)
• Fluvio - fvm switch fails on some systems with running local cluster
• Fluvio - Add new command fluvio cluster resume

CFP - Speakers

Are you a new or experienced speaker looking for a place to share something cool? This section highlights events that are being planned and are accepting submissions to join their event as a speaker.

• Oxidize 2024 CFP closes 2024-03-24 | Berlin, Germany | Event date: 2024-05-28 - 2024-05-30
• RustConf 2024 | CFP closes 2024-04-25 | Montreal, Canada | 2024-09-10
• EuroRust 2024| CFP closes 2024-06-03 | Vienna, Austria & online | Event on 2024-10-10

If you are an event organizer hoping to expand the reach of your event, please submit a link to the submission website through a PR to TWiR.

Updates from the Rust Project

488 pull requests were merged in the last week

• ffi_unwind_calls: treat RustIntrinsic like regular Rust calls
• pattern_analysis: rework how we hide empty private fields
• rustc: fix wasm64 metadata object files
• add a proper with_no_queries to printing
• add a way to add constructors for rustc_type_ir types
• add initial support for DataFlowSanitizer
• add new pattern_complexity attribute to add possibility to limit and check recursion in pattern matching
• add platform-specific function to get the error number for HermitOS
• add profiling support to AIX
• add proper cfg to keep only one AlignmentEnum definition for different target_pointer_widths
• allow statics pointing to mutable statics
• always generate GEP i8 / ptradd for struct offsets
• avoid collecting into vecs in some places
• avoid using unnecessary queries when printing the query stack in panics
• consider middle segments of paths in unused_qualifications
• correctly generate item info of trait items
• delete line if suggestion would replace it with an empty line
• display short types for unimplemented trait
• don't grab variances in TypeRelating relation if we're invariant
• don't panic when waiting on poisoned queries
• fix incorrect suggestion for uninitialized binding in pattern
• fix issues in suggesting importing extern crate paths
• fix link generation for foreign macro in jump to definition feature
• implement missing ABI structures in StableMIR
• improve renaming suggestion when item starts with underscore
• made INVALID_DOC_ATTRIBUTES lint deny by default
• make ZeroablePrimitive trait unsafe
• make the success arms of if lhs || rhs meet up in a separate block
• match lowering: Lower bindings in a predictable order
• match lowering: Separate the bool case from other integers in TestKind
• match lowering: pre-simplify or-patterns too
• never say "Trait is implemented for"
• normalizes-to: handle negative impls
• opportunistically resolve regions when processing region outlives obligations
• pattern analysis: Don't panic when encountering unexpected constructor
• pattern analysis: abort on arity mismatch
• preserve same vtable pointer when cloning raw waker, to fix Waker::will_wake
• process alias-relate obligations in CoerceUnsized loop
• properly deal with GATs when looking for method chains to point at
• safe Transmute: Revise safety analysis
• skip unnecessary comparison with half-open range patterns
• split rustc_type_ir to avoid rustc_ast from depending on it
• style library/core/src/error.rs
• suggest moving definition if non-found macro_rules! is defined later
• suggest removing superfluous semicolon when statements used as expression
• the ordinary lowering of thir::ExprKind::Let is unreachable
• use volatile access instead of #[used] for on_tls_callback
• miri: add -Zmiri-track-alloc-accesses to readme and fix its wording
• miri: log when we change the active thread, and fix logging for concurrency
• miri: print thread name in miri error backtraces; add option to track read/write accesses
• miri: tree Borrows diagnostic improvements
• miri: windows: support getting the thread name
• add ASCII fast-path for char::is_grapheme_extended
• perf: improve write_fmt to handle simple strings
• add display method to OsStr
• have String use SliceIndex impls from str
• use the OS thread name by default if THREAD_INFO has not been initialized
• add missing get_name for wasm::thread
• remove Mutex::unlock Function
• implement unwind safety for Condvar on all platforms
• make ReentrantLock public
• codegen_gcc: debuginfo: Add support for debuginfo, without scope support
• codegen_gcc: switch to the new set_special_chars_allowed_in_func_names API
• cargo add: Fallback to rustc -v when no MSRV is set
• cargo toml: Warn on unset Edition
• cargo msrv: Report all incompatible packages, not just a random one
• cargo rustc: Always pass --edition to rustc
• cargo toml: Don't warn on unset Edition if only 2015 is compatible
• cargo: add all unit's children recursively for doc.extern-map option
• cargo: add "-Zpublic-dependency" for public-dependency feature
• cargo: silently ignore cargo::rustc-check-cfg to avoid MSRV annoyance when stabilizing -Zcheck-cfg
• cargo: stabilize global cache data tracking
• rustdoc: Prevent inclusion of whitespace character after macro_rules ident
• rustfmt: ensure space around binary exprs
• clippy: identity_op: Fix duplicate diagnostics
• clippy: let_underscore_untyped: fix false positive on async function
• clippy: map_entry: Check insert expression for map use
• clippy: misrefactored_assign_op: fix duplicate diagnostics
• clippy: redundant_closure_call: don't lint closure originating from a macro
• clippy: unnecessary_cast: avoid breaking precedence
• clippy: add assigning_clones lint
• clippy: add mixed_attributes_style lint
• clippy: added msrv to threadlocal initializer check
• clippy: check for try blocks in question_mark more consistently
• clippy: dedup std_instead_of_core by using first segment span for uniqueness
• clippy: don't emit "missing backticks" lint if the element is wrapped in <code> HTML tags
• clippy: fix false positive in threadlocal! when falling back to os_local
• clippy: fix derive_partial_eq_without_eq false positive on trait projection
• clippy: fix nonminimal_bool lint regression
• clippy: fix manual_memcpy wrong indexing for multi dimensional arrays
• clippy: handle plural acronyms in doc_markdown
• clippy: improve is_lint_level code
• clippy: lower bstr version requirement to 1.6.0
• clippy: pointers cannot be converted to integers at compile time
• rust-analyzer: add hover display for trait assoc items
• rust-analyzer: add basic support for native debug
• rust-analyzer: autocomplete constants inside format strings
• rust-analyzer: don't destructure struct with no public fields
• rust-analyzer: don't highlight related assoc items of super traits
• rust-analyzer: goto definition for deref_mut
• rust-analyzer: goto definition for index_mut
• rust-analyzer: goto-definition for constants inside range pattern
• rust-analyzer: ignore generic arguments in intra doc link path resolution
• rust-analyzer: put style lints behind disabled-by-default config
• rust-analyzer: fix rust-project.json projects not preferring sysroot rustc
• rust-analyzer: fix wrong closure kind deduction for closures with predicates
• futures: parse rhs of select! arms using match-arm rules

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A bunch of noise this week which has been dropped from the report (but may be present in the summary figures). As a result, the week is pretty busy in amount of changes, but the net effect is nearly neutral to a slight regression for most workloads.

Triage done by @simulacrum. Revision range: 71ffdf7..41d97c8

2 Regressions, 0 Improvements, 10 Mixed; 4 of them in rollups 51 artifact 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:

• RFC: Make Cargo respect minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) when selecting dependencies

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

• RFC: patchable-function-entry
• RFC: Add native code coverage support in Cargo
• RFC: Packages as (optional) namespaces

Tracking Issues & PRs

Rust

• [disposition: merge] alloc: implement FromIterator for Box<str>
• [disposition: merge] rework opaque type region inference
• [disposition: merge] Make impl<Fd: AsFd> impl take ?Sized
• [disposition: merge] Tracking issue for Allow a re-export for main (RFC 1260)
• [disposition: merge] Update Windows platform support
• [disposition: close] Resolve region bounds from components of type projection
• [disposition: merge] Propagate temporary lifetime extension into if and match.
• [disposition: merge] more eagerly instantiate binders
• [disposition: merge] E0492: borrow of an interior mutable value may end up in the final value during const eval when no inner mutability is involved
• [disposition: merge] align_offset, align_to: no longer allow implementations to spuriously fail to align
• [disposition: merge] Soft-destabilize RustcEncodable & RustcDecodable, remove from prelude in next edition
• [disposition: merge] impl From<TryReserveError> for io::Error

Cargo

• [disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for rustc --check-cfg integration

New and Updated RFCs

• [new] Public Key Infrastructure for Rust Project

Upcoming Events

Rusty Events between 2024-03-06 - 2024-04-03 🦀

Virtual

• 2024-03-06 | Virtual (Dublin, IE) | Rust Dublin
  • An intro to nom, parsing made easy for Rustaceans
• 2024-03-06 | Virtual (Indianapolis, IN, US) | Indy Rust
  • Indy.rs - with Social Distancing
• 2024-03-07 | Virtual (Charlottesville, NC, US) | Charlottesville Rust Meetup
  • Crafting Interpreters in Rust Collaboratively
• 2024-03-12 | Virtual (Dallas, TX, US) | Dallas Rust
  • Second Tuesday
• 2024-03-12 | Hybrid (Virtual + In-person) Munich, DE | Rust Munich
  • Rust Munich 2024 / 1 - hybrid
• 2024-03-13 | Virtual (Cardiff, UK) | Rust and C++ Cardiff
  • Rust for Rustaceans Book Club: Chapter 3 - Designing Interfaces
• 2024-03-14 | Virtual (Berlin, DE) | OpenTechSchool Berlin
  • Web Frontend Co-Learning (online)
• 2024-03-14 | Virtual (Berlin, DE) | OpenTechSchool Berlin + Rust Berlin
  • Rust Hack and Learn | Mirror: Rust Hack n Learn Meetup | Mirror: Berline.rs page
• 2024-03-14 | Virtual (Nürnberg, DE) | Rust Nüremberg
  • Rust Nürnberg online
• 2024-03-19 | Virtual (Washinigton, DC, US) | Rust DC
  • Mid-month Rustful
• 2024-03-20 | Virtual (Vancouver, BC, CA)| Vancouver Rust
  • Rust Study/Hack/Hang-out
• 2024-03-21 | Virtual (Charlottesville, NC, US) | Charlottesville Rust Meetup
  • Crafting Interpreters in Rust Collaboratively
• 2024-03-26 | Virtual + In Person (Barcelona, ES) | BcnRust
  • 13th BcnRust Meetup - Stream
• 2024-03-28 | Virtual (Berlin, DE) | OpenTechSchool Berlin + Rust Berlin
  • Rust Hack and Learn | Mirror: Rust Hack n Learn Meetup
• 2024-04-02 | Virtual (Buffalo, NY, US) | Buffalo Rust
  • Buffalo Rust User Group
• 2024-04-03 | Virtual (Cardiff, UK) | Rust and C++ Cardiff
  • Rust for Rustaceans Book Club: Chapter 4 - Error Handling
• 2024-04-03 | Virtual (Indianapolis, IN, US) | Indy Rust
  • Indy.rs - with Social Distancing

Asia

• 2024-03-09 | Karnataka, Bengaluru, IN | Rust Bangalore
  • March 2024 Rustacean Meetup
• 2024-03-12 | Tokyo, JP | Tokyo Rust Meetup
  • Building the Isograph Compiler in Rust

Europe

• 2024-03-06 | Cologne / Köln, DE | Rust Cologne
  • Macros by simple Examples
• 2024-03-06 | Zürich, CH | Rust Zürisee
  • How to (partial) Migration - March Meetup
• 2024-03-07 | Copenhagen, DK | Copenhagen Rust Community
  • Rust Hack Night #3: Embedded on Espressif's ESP32C3
• 2024-03-12 | Munich, DE + Virtual | Rust Munich
  • Rust Munich 2024 / 1 - hybrid
• 2024-03-13 | Paris, FR | Paris Rustaceans
  • Rust Meetup in Paris
• 2024-03-14 | Reading, UK | Reading Rust Workshop
  • Reading Rust Meetup at Browns
• 2024-03-19 | Aarhus, DK | Rust Aarhus
  • Hack Night
• 2024-03-19 | Leipzig, DE | Rust - Modern Systems Programming in Leipzig
  • Rust Interactive Session
• 2024-03-19 | Prague, CZ | Rust Prague
  • Rust Meetup @ Charles University
• 2024-03-20 | Girona, ES | Rust Girona
  • Introduction to programming Microcontrollers with Rust
• 2024-03-20 | Lyon, FR | Rust Lyon
  • Rust Lyon Meetup #9
• 2024-03-21 | Augsburg, DE | Rust Meetup Augsburg
  • Augsburg Rust Meetup #6
• 2024-03-21 | Lille, FR | Rust Lille
  • Rust Lille #6: Du RSS et de L'ECS !
• 2024-03-26 | Barcelona, ES + Virtual | BcnRust
  • 13th BcnRust Meetup
• 2024-03-27 - 2024-03-28 | London, UK | Rust Nation UK
  • Rust Nation 2024 - Conference
• 2024-03-28 | Berlin, DE | Rust Berlin
  • Rust and Tell

North America

• 2024-03-07 | Mountain View, CA, US | Mountain View Rust Meetup
  • Rust Meetup at Hacker Dojo
• 2024-03-12 | New York, NY, US | Rust NYC
  • Rust NYC Monthly Meetup
• 2024-03-13 | Boston, MA, US | Boston Rust Meetup
  • Northeastern Rust Lunch
• 2024-03-19 | San Francisco, CA, US | San Francisco Rust Study Group
  • Rust Hacking in Person
• 2024-03-21 | Seattle, WA, US | Seattle Rust User Group
  • Seattle Rust User Group Meetup
• 2024-03-27 | Austin, TX, US | Rust ATX
  • Rust Lunch - Fareground
• 2024-03-27 | Hawthorne, CA, US | Freeform
  • Rust in the Physical World 🦀 Tech Talk Event at Freeform

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Jobs

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Quote of the Week

My experience with C++ is that, as I’ve become more of an expert in the language, I’ve become more disillusioned with it. It’s incredibly hard to do things that you should be able to do in software. And, it’s a huge problem for me to constantly be helping other engineers debug the same bugs over and over. It’s always another use after free. I’ve probably debugged 300 of those. [...]

In our experience using the Rust ecosystem for almost three years now, I don't think we found a bug in a single Rust crate that we've pulled off the shelf. We found a bug in one of them and that was a Rust crate wrapping a C library and the bug was in the C library. The software quality that you kind of get for free is amazing.

– Carter Schultz interviewed on the filtra blog

Thanks to George Barwood 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, bennyvasquez.

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