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Updates from Rust Community

Official

• Announcing Rust 1.45.1
• Announcing Rust 1.45.2

Tooling

• Rust Analyzer Changelog #36
• IntelliJ Rust: Updates for the 2020.2 Release
• Headcrab: July 2020 progress report

Newsletters

• This Month in Rust OSDev (July 2020)

Observations/Thoughts

• Go vs Rust: Writing a CLI tool
• How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2020
• A Curious Tale of Rust TLS and Postgres in the Cloud

Learn Standard Rust

• Learning Rust: Mindsets and Expectations
• Understanding the Rust borrow checker
• Beginner's guide to Error Handling in Rust
• Rust Hashmaps Tutorial
• Blue Team Rust: What is "Memory Safety", really?
• How to use the Rust compiler as your integration testing framework
• A Comprehensive Tutorial to Rust Operators for Beginners
• What You Should Know About Unsigned, Signed Integers and Casting in Rust
• Memory safety in Rust - part 2
• A gentle introduction to assembly with rust
• Prevent Breaking Code Changes in Future Releases using non exhaustive enums in Rust
• A Heaping Helping of Stacks
• Prevent Breaking Code Changes in Future Releases using non exhaustive enums in Rust
• Rust for a Pythonista #1: Why and When?
• [PT] Aprendendo Rust: 05 - Funções
• [RU] Rust: работа с потоками
• [video] Learning Rust by Working Through the Rustlings Exercises

Learn More Rust

• Creating Linux Packages for Rust Projects (1/2)
• Operating System development tutorials in Rust on the Raspberry Pi
• Reverse Engineering a USB Device with Rust
• A Simple Crud on Rust (With Rocket.rs and Diesel.rs)
• Some Learnings from Implementing a Normalizing Rust Representer
• Countdown problem in Rust
• Exploring Azure CosmosDB with Rust - Part 1
• Building Rust Web API with Warp and Diesel
• Microservices in Rust with Kafka
• Risc-V OS using Rust: Graphics
• Rust Traits: Defining Behavior
• Writing and publishing a Python module in Rust
• [video] Hypercore Protocol in Rust
• [video] Reasonable Coding 030 - HotStuff, a composable, no-nonsense document compiler (part 1)

Project Updates

• Rust Language Cheat Sheet 2019 -> 2020

Miscellaneous

• Video recording technology at RustFest
• [audio] The State of Rust 2 with Alex Chrichton
• [audio] The State of Rust with Steve Klabnik
• [video] Rusty Days 2020 - all videos

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is partial-io, a set of helpers to test partial, interrupted and would-block I/O operations.

Thanks to Kornel for the suggestion!

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.

No issues were proposed for CfP.

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

Updates from Rust Core

326 pull requests were merged in the last week

• suppress debuginfo on naked function arguments
• normalize all opaque types when converting ParamEnv to Reveal::All
• ensure stack when type checking and building MIR for large if expressions
• replace a recursive algorithm with an iterative one
• fix #[track_caller] shims for trait objects
• make closures and generators must_use types
• BTreeMap::drain_filter should not touch the root during iteration
• add str::(r)split_once
• add Vec::spare_capacity_mut
• add slice::array_chunks
• stabilize const_type_id
• stabilize Vec::leak as a method
• stabilize Result::as_deref and as_deref_mut
• make Option::unwrap unstably const
• make mem::size_of_val and mem::align_of_val unstably const
• backtrace-rs: include source column numbers, where available

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

• 2020-08-03. 8 regressions, 2 improvements, 1 of them on rollups. 1 outstanding nag from last week.

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: 'C unwind' ABI

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 are currently in the final comment period.

Tracking Issues & PRs

No Tracking Issues or PRs are currently in the final comment period.

New RFCs

• Procedural vtables and wide ptr metadata
• Edition 2021 and beyond

Upcoming Events

Online

• August 5. Johannesburg, ZA - Johannesburg Rust Meetup - Monthly Joburg Rust Chat
• August 5. Dublin, IE - Rust Dublin - August Remote Meetup
• August 5. Buffalo, NY, US - Buffalo Rust Meetup - Rust User Group
• August 5. Indianapolis, IN, US - Indy Rust - Indy.rs with Social Distancing
• August 6. Linz, AT - Rust Meetup Linz - Kick Off
• August 6. Berlin, DE - Berline.rs - Rust Hack and Learn
• August 11. Seattle, WA, US - Seattle Rust Meetup - Monthly meetup
• August 11. Saarbrücken, DE - Rust-Saar Meetup 3u16
• August 13. San Diego, CA, US - San Diego Rust - August 2020 Tele-Meetup

North America

• August 13. Columbus, OH, US - Columbus Rust Society - Monthly Meeting

Asia Pacific

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Rust Jobs

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Quote of the Week

Empowering is the perfect word to describe Rust in 2020. What used to be a rough adventure with many pitfalls has turned into something beautiful, something that can lift your spirit. At least, that’s what it did for me.

• Mathias Lafeldt on his blog

Thanks to Henrik Tougaard for the suggestion!

Please submit quotes and vote for next week!

This Week in Rust is edited by: nellshamrell, llogiq, and cdmistman.

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