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Updates from Rust Community

Official

• Launching the 2021 State of Rust Survey

Foundation

• Member Spotlight: Automata

Newsletters

• WebAssembly Weekly
• This Month in Rust GameDev #28 - November 2021

Project/Tooling Updates

• Rust Analyzer Changelog #107
• Cranelift Progress Report: A Look Back at 2021
• Rust for Linux
• Announcing rsadsb v0.4.0: View Airplanes in the sky with Rust
• SixtyFPS (GUI crate): Changelog for 12th of December 2021
• sysinfo: version 0.22 and FreeBSD support
• Announcing the Grafana Plugin SDK for Rust
• Announcing Enzyme for Rust
• This week in Databend #20: an elastic and reliable cloud warehouse
• This week in Fluvio #16: the programmable streaming platform
• git-cliff 0.5.0 (changelog generator)

Observations/Thoughts

• Rust as a platform for IoT
• https://madsravn.dk/posts/using-liquid-rust-with-serde
• Rust Error Handling
• How not to learn Rust
• [audio] Refactoring to Rust with Lily Mara
• [video] Talking about the Rust Programming Language with Luca Palmieri

Rust Walkthroughs

• A brutally effective hash function in Rust
• Less Painful Linear Types
• A Rust Api pattern (Actix)
• Authoring a SIMD enhanced Wasm library with Rust
• Getting better insights into your Rust applications
• Validating JSON input in Rust web services
• [video] Building a networked Web and Native app with Rust
• [series] [video] rg3d - live game development #4

Miscellaneous

• The DevX Initiative Sponsorship Program: Goals and Principles
• Introducing the new Relay compiler
• [DE] Linux-Kernel: Rust-Entwicklung schreitet mit neuer Edition voran

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is efg, a proc macro to allow boolean expression like syntax for #[cfg]s.

Thanks to farnbams 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.

Ockam

• Change no_main feature on ockam_macros to an argument
• Reduce the features that the ockam_macros crate requires from syn

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

Updates from the Rust Project

315 pull requests were merged in the last week

• asm: allow using r9 (ARM) and x18 (AArch64) if they are not reserved by the current target
• suggest using a temporary variable to fix borrowck errors
• tweak "call this function" suggestion to have smaller span
• tweak assoc type obligation spans
• better span for unexpected normalization failure in CTFE engine
• give more help in the unaligned_references lint
• suggest casting between i/u32 and char
• add a suggestion if macro_rules is misspelled
• avoid cloning refcounted types during folding
• deduplicate projection sub-obligations
• do not ICE when suggesting elided lifetimes on non-existent spans
• do not add ; to expected tokens list when it's wrong
• do not attempt to suggest help for overly malformed struct/function call
• improve 'cannot contain emoji' error
• add spin_loop hint for RISC-V architecture
• override Iterator::advance(_back)_by for array::IntoIter
• replace dominators algorithm with simple Lengauer-Tarjan
• add <*{const|mut} T>::{to|from}_bits
• add array::IntoIter::{empty, from_raw_parts}
• add rsplit_array variants to slices and arrays
• make Option::cloned const
• make (*mut T)::write_bytes const
• make Borrow and BorrowMut impls const
• make Uniques methods const
• make intrinsics::write_bytes const
• implement TryFrom<&'_ mut [T]> for [T; N]
• implement core::future::join!
• implement concat_bytes!
• provide the ReadBuf abstraction
• stabilise feature(const_generics_defaults)
• stabilize ControlFlow::{is_break, is_continue}
• stabilize const_cstr_unchecked
• cargo: improve I/O error message for fingerprint of build script
• rustdoc: show type layout for type aliases
• clippy: add new lint to warn when #[must_use] attribute should be used on a method
• clippy: fix FP on question_mark if returned object is not local
• clippy: fix blocks_in_if_conditions false positive
• clippy: fix bad suggestion on option_if_let_else when there is complex subpat
• clippy: ignore associated types in traits when considering type complexity

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

This week's report started with 6 regressions; after eliminating truly obvious noise, we are left with just 2 minor regressions. Of the cases that regressed, I think the only interesting one is keccak (regressed by 1.73% in PR #91549). But don't be too depressed: keccak was also improved up to 23% by PR #85013 (!); thanks to @simulacrum for that PR.

Triage done by @pnkfelix. Revision range: e2116a..404c847

2 Regressions, 5 Improvements, 3 Mixed; 1 of them in rollups 48 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:

• No RFCs were approved this week.

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: merge] Amend RFC 2996 to replace Stream with AsyncIterator
• [disposition: merge] Thread local Cell methods.

Tracking Issues & PRs

• [disposition: merge] Make rustdoc --passes and rustdoc --no-defaults have no effect
• [disposition: merge] make Instant::{duration_since, elapsed, sub} saturating and remove workarounds
• [disposition: close] Tracking issue for RFC 2115: In-band lifetime bindings

New RFCs

• No new RFCs were published this week.

Upcoming Events

Rusty Events between 12/15/2021 - 1/15/2022 🦀

Online

• December 15, 2021 | Cardiff, UK | Rust Book Study Session - Error Handling & Generic Types, Traits, and Lifetimes | Rust and C++ Cardiff
• December 16, 2021 | Linz, AT | Rust Meetup Linz - 17th Edition | Rust Linz
• December 17, 2021 | Various cities, IR | The Third Rust Iran online meetup | Rust Iran Meetup
• December 18, 2021 | Vancouver, BC, CA | Your Rust Web Development Toolset | Vancouver Rust
• December 21, 2021 | Los Gatos, CA, US | Book #24 - Rust for Rustaceans - Chapter 1 (session 3) | Los Gatos Reading Group | Alternative Link (South Padre Island, TX Reading Group)
• December 21, 2021 | Washington, DC, US | Mid-month Rustful | Rust DC
• December 23, 2021 | Stuttgart, DE | Rust-Meetup | Rust Community Stuttgart
• December 28, 2021 | Dallas, TX, US | Dallas Rust - Last Tuesday | Dallas Rust
• January 5, 2022 | Indianapolis, IN, US | Indy.rs - with Social Distancing | Indy Rust
• January 6, 2022 | Nürnberg, DE | Rust Nürnberg online #8| Rust Nuremberg
• January 8, 2022 | Various cities | Rust GameDev Monthly Meetup | Rust GameDev
• January 11, 2022 | Seattle, WA, US | Monthly meetup | Seattle Rust Meetup
• January 12, 2022 | Boulder, CO, US | Monthly Meetup | Boulder Elixir and Rust
• January 12, 2022 | Los Angeles, CA, US | Live Coding Session - Mob Programming a Rust Code Kata [Virtual] Jan. 2022 | Rust Los Angeles
• January 12, 2022 | Stuttgart, DE | Rust-Meetup | Rust Community Stuttgart

North America

• December 16, 2021 | Austin, TX, US | Rust Lunch | Rust ATX
• January 12, 2022 | Atlanta, GA, US | Grab a beer with fellow Rustaceans | Rust Atlanta
• January 13, 2022 | Columbus, OH, US | Monthly Meeting | Columbus Rust Society

If you are running a Rust event please add it to the calendar to get it mentioned here. Please remember to add a link to the event too. Email the Rust Community Team for access.

Rust Jobs

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• Backend Engineer - Rust - Core Backend (Remote)
• Backend Engineer, Kraken Futures - Rust (Remote)
• Senior Rust Engineer - Banking (Remote)

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Quote of the Week

This is safer than you may think, because those who need async tend to know it themselves and don't ask "should I use async" question. In other words, asking itself is a signal that answer is no. MITM proxy case was a rare exception.

– Seo Sanghyeon on rust-users

Thanks to Zeroexcuses 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.

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