Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a systems language pursuing the trifecta: safety, concurrency, and speed. 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

• [Inside] Rust & the case of the disappearing stack frames

Newsletters

Project/Tooling Updates

• rust-analyzer Changelog #61
• Performance improvement on front-end generated by rustdoc
• Criterion.rs v0.3.4 and Iai 0.1.0
• The RustyHermit Unikernel
• Introducing usb-ids.rs
• ⚡️ Dotenv-linter v3.0.0: Overview 🦀
• 🧮 [An Auto-Increment Crate for Rust][https://jeffa.io/an_auto-increment_crate_for_rust]

Observations/Thoughts

• Porting a serverless chatbot from Python to Rust
• Unsafe Rust: How and when (not) to use it
• Rust and Go department directories
• Parsing real-world data with Rust: introducing the alias_all attribute in Serde

Rust Walkthroughs

• Wrapping Errors in Rust
• Implementing Raft's Leader Election in Rust
• 2048 WASM
• Implementing an LRU Cache in Rust
• Make A Language - Part Nineteen: Code Representations
• Make A Language - Part Twenty: Testing
• How to optimise compilation times with Rust
• Automatic flamegraphs for benchmarks with Criterion
• Implementing Raft's Leader Election in Rust
• First time using Yew: A Go game board in just a few lines of Rust.
• [ES] El juego de la vida usando Rust y Iced

Miscellaneous

• Are we learning yet?
• Microsoft Opens Up Old Win32 APIs to C# and Rust, More Languages to Come
• A fix for the LLVM noalias bug has landed in time for LLVM 12 branches
• Dynamic type systems aren't even simpler
• Everywhere I go, I miss Rust's `enum`s
• Open-Source Rust: 24 Awesome Frameworks, Projects, and Libraries

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is aquamarine bringing you inline diagrams for your rustdocs.

Thanks to Willi Kappler 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.

• Fuschia has several open issues

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

Updates from Rust Core

299 pull requests were merged in the last week

• improve unknown external crate error
• gracefully handle loop labels missing leading ' in different positions
• improve diagnostics when parsing angle args
• permit mutable references in all const contexts
• prevent query cycles in the MIR inliner
• mir: improve size_of handling when arg is unsized
• implement Error for &(impl Error)
• change branching in iter.skip()
• BufWriter: Provide into_raw_parts
• fix soundness issue for replace_range and range
• avoid hash_slice in VecDeque's Hash implementation
• turn alloc's force_expr macro into a regular macro_rules
• hashbrown: add try_insert_no_grow method on RawTable
• fix a bug in Cargo's cyclic dep graph detection
• cargo: add some extra help to cargo new and invalid package names
• rustdoc: fix rendering of stabilization version for trait implementors
• clippy: manual_filter_map and manual_find_map
• clippy: new lint: exhaustive_enums, exhaustive_structs

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

This week continues a trend of relatively large rollups, which often contain perf-sensitive PRs. We need to get better at marking PRs as rollup=never or otherwise not including them, but it is unclear how precisely to go about doing so. The tooling for testing individual PRs merged in rollups should also be improved to work better in the next few days, though.

Other than that, this week saw several regressions, most of which were not easily explained. We are seeking feedback from PR authors and reviewers on whether the results are expected and if anything can be done.

Triage done by @rylevick and @simulacrum. Revision range: e05409a02c6e73a3dea6da98798468db2910ca59..1483e67addd37d9bd20ba3b4613b678ee9ad4d68

5 Regressions, 2 Improvements, 1 Mixed; 3 of them in rollups

See the full report for more.

Approved RFCs

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

• Allow "artifact dependencies" on bin, cdylib, and staticlib crates

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

• Rust 2021 Roadmap

Tracking Issues & PRs

• [disposition: merge] Remove requirement that forces symmetric and transitive PartialEq impls to exist
• [disposition: merge] Stabilize core::slice::fill_with
• [disposition: merge] Add Box::downcast() for dyn Any + Send + Sync
• [disposition: merge] Stabilize by-value [T; N] iterator core::array::IntoIter
• [disposition: merge] Implement missing AsMut<str> for str
• [disposition: merge] stabilise cargo test -- --include-ignored
• [disposition: merge] Stabilize peekable_next_if
• [disposition: merge] rustc: Stabilize -Zrun-dsymutil as -Csplit-debuginfo
• [disposition: merge] Stabilize Arc::{increment,decrement}_strong_count
• [disposition: merge] expand/resolve: Turn #[derive] into a regular macro attribute
• [disposition: merge] Implement io::Seek for io::Empty
• [disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for feature(int_bits_const): <integer>::BITS
• [disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for fmt::Arguments::as_str()

New RFCs

• Change visibility scoping rules for macro_rules macros

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Quote of the Week

Describing Rust as a systems programming language in 2021 is like describing Microsoft as Windows or Google as search. Yes, Rust is equipped for systems programming, but its applicability is much wider.

– Tim McNamara on twitter

Thanks to Nixon Enraght-Moony 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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