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Updates from Rust Community

No papers/research projects this week.

Official

• [Inside] Core Team updates
• [Foundation] Introducing Peixin Hou
• [Foundation] Introducing Florian Gilcher

Newsletters

• This Month in Rust OSDev (March 2021)
• RiB Newsletter #22 - A few tweaks

Project/Tooling Updates

• GCC Rust Monthly Report #4 March 2021
• mrustc upgrade: rustc 1.39.0
• rust-analyzer Changelog #71
• A new Left Recursive PEG Parser Generator for rust
• Last Month in Flott (Motion Control Toolkit in Rust) - April 2021
• Recent updates in IntelliJ Rust
• Bevy 0.5

Observations/Thoughts

• Interfacing a low-level actor system to Rust async/await, part 1
• A Tour of Safe Tracing GC Designs in Rust
• How I Used Rust + Lunatic to Build a TelNet Chat Server with WebAssembly
• Eliminating Data Races in Firefox - A Technical Report
• First-class IO
• The modern packager's security nightmare
• Ordering Requests to Accelerate I/O
• An essay of checked exceptions in Rust
• Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with
• [video] I tried learning OpenGL in 7 days - using Rust

Rust Walkthroughs

• How we built our Python Client that's mostly Rust
• Hello world with KAS GUI
• How to create small Docker images for Rust
• Oxidizing the Kubernetes Operator
• Sending tuples from Node to Rust and back
• Getting started with Kafka and Rust: Part 1
• A Beginner's Guide to Handling Errors in Rust
• Using Seahorn
• Asynchronous streams in Rust (part 1) - Futures, buffering and mysterious compilation error messages
• [series] What would SQLite look like if written in Rust? — Part 3
• [video] Return a value from a function in Rust
• [video] Crust of Rust: Atomics and Memory Ordering
• [video] Async/Await in Rust: Introduction
• [video] OpenVehicleDiag Rust live coding with Macchina's A0!!
• [video] [series] Easy Rust - learn to program in Rust with simple English

Miscellaneous

• best-of-ml-rust: A ranked list of awesome machine learning Rust libraries
• Rust in the Android platform
• David Tolnay - thank you
• My "shiny future"

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is rs-pbrt, a counterpart to the PBRT book's (3rd edition) C++ code.

Thanks to Jan Walter 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.

• dotenv-linter has several good first issues

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

Updates from Rust Core

313 pull requests were merged in the last week

• fix stack overflow detection on FreeBSD 11.1+
• disallow the use of high byte registes as operands on x86_64
• resolve/expand: cache intermediate results of #[derive] expansion
• panic early when TrustedLen indicates a length > usize::MAX
• suggest box/pin/arcing receiver on method calls
• run LLVM coverage instrumentation passes before optimization passes
• simplify logical operations CFG
• remove unneeded type resolving
• unaligned_references: align(N) fields in packed(N) structs are fine
• prevent very long compilation runtimes in LateBoundRegionNameCollector
• reduce the impact of Vec::reserve calls that do not cause any allocation
• BTree: no longer search arrays twice to check Ord
• stream the dep-graph to a file instead of storing it in-memory
• implement SourceIterator and InPlaceIterable for ResultShunt
• optimize jumps in PartialOrd::le
• ffi::c_str removed bound checks on as_bytes, to_bytes
• added as_slice method to BinaryHeap collection
• use #[inline(always)] on trivial UnsafeCell methods
• add #[inline] to IpAddr methods
• disallow octal format in Ipv4 string
• constify methods of std::net::SocketAddr, SocketAddrV4 and SocketAddrV6
• constify some slice methods
• stdsimd: add saturating abs/neg
• hashbrown: make RawTable::insert_no_grow unsafe
• cargo: add cargo config subcommand
• rustdoc: only look at blanket impls in get_blanket_impls
• rustdoc: add unstable option to only emit shared/crate-specific files
• rustdoc: don't enter an infer_ctxt in get_blanket_impls for impls that aren't blanket impls
• rustdoc: highlight macros more efficiently
• clippy: add non_octal_unix_permissions lint
• clippy: don't lint manual_map in const functions
• clippy: new Lint: needless_for_each
• clippy: new Lint: branches_sharing_code
• clippy: lint: filter(Option::is_some).map(Option::unwrap)
• clippy: remove author requirement for cargo_common_metadata
• Clippy going dark: adding a dark theme to Clippy's lint list
• crates.io: topologically sort db-dump.tar.gz
• parallelize tidy

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A pretty major week for memory usage improvements with an average of ~20% gains on memory usage for release builds, and 5% on check builds, due to an update in the default allocator used (to a more recent jemalloc). Wall time performance remained largely unchanged over this week.

Triage done by @simulacrum. Revision range: 4896450e..d32238

1 Regressions, 4 Improvements, 0 Mixed

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: Declarative macro metavariable expressions

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

• [disposition: close] RFC: Structural Records
• [disposition: postpone] Hygiene opt-out (escaping) for declarative macros 2.0
• [disposition: postpone] RFC: Delegation
• [disposition: close] RFC: #[derive_no_bound(..)] and #[derive_field_bound(..)]
• [disposition: postpone] RFC: Eager Macro Expansion
• [disposition: merge] try_trait_v2: A new design for the ? desugaring

Tracking Issues & PRs

• [disposition: merge] Remove T: Debug bound on UnsafeCell Debug impl
• [disposition: merge] Turn old edition lint (anonymous-parameters) into warn-by-default on 2015
• [disposition: merge] Stabilize rustdoc::bare_urls lint
• [disposition: merge] Tracking issue: fNN::is_subnormal
• [disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for feature(nonzero_leading_trailing_zeros)
• [disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for {BTreeMap,BTreeSet}::retain
• [disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for #![feature(const_cell_into_inner)]
• [disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for atomic_fetch_update
• [disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for feature: "option_insert"
• [disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for Duration saturating operations
• [disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for Duration::{zero, is_zero} (#![feature(duration_zero)])
• [disposition: close] Tracking issue for FixedSizeArray trait

New RFCs

• RFC: Reserved prefixes in the 2021 edition

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Quote of the Week

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

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