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+Title: This Week In Rust 1
+Date: 2013-06-07 18:46
+Tags: this-week-in-rust, rust, programming
+Category: This Week in Rust
+
+Hello and welcome to the first issue of *This Week In Rust*, a weekly overview
+of Rust and its community. I'll be covering what's cooking in incoming,
+meeting summaries, meetups, and anything else pertinent. Any ideas, email them
+to me, <mailto:corey+rust@octayn.net>.
+
+The Rust interns arrived this week and have got cracking right away. Big hello
+to Aaron Todd, Ben Blum, and Michael Sullivan! We can look forward to work all
+over the place, especially in the RT and debug-info.
+
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+
+# What's cooking in incoming?
+
+There were 30 pull requests merged this week. A scattering of doc fixes and a
+bunch of code cleanups and optimization work as usual. Total issue churn
+(excludes pull requests) this week was +6.
+
+## Notable additions, bugfixes, and cleanups
+
+- Ben Striegel added the `as_c_str` string function as a method as part of the
+  overall methodization covered by [6045][is6045].
+- James Miller landed a much better optimization pipeline in [6881][is6881],
+  fixing a bunch of nascent optimization problems, especially with inlining,
+  and also fixing an earlier (huge) regression (that he introduced,
+  admittedly).
+- James also fixed [6977][is6977], which allowed nonsensical expressions like `[0,
+  ..-1]`. Whoops!
+- I introduced terminfo handling to `extra::term` in [6826][is6826], bringing
+  rustc's beautiful colors to a wider audience.  Unfortunately, it isn't
+  complete yet and, most notably, does not handle `xterm-256color` correctly
+  yet.
+- Daniel Micay landed jemalloc as the default allocator in the runtime,
+  leading to nice allocation performance boosts on all platforms, as well as
+  much improved multithreaded performance. It also has the benefit of
+  cross-platform tuning and instrumentation.
+
+## Breaking changes
+
+It would be silly not to mention these changes, even though they weren't
+strictly this week:
+
+- `libcore` was renamed to `libstd` and `libstd` was renamed to `libextra`, to
+  better reflect their purpose. Confusingly, the code in rustc still uses the
+  old names. Something to watch out for!
+- All of the module reexports were removed from the prelude, so if you use,
+  for example, `io::foo`, `vec::foo`, etc, you will find yourself having to
+  add a lot of extra imports. `use std::*` to regain the old behavior,
+  more or less.
+- Patrick fixed the unsafe checker to safe code can no longer call unsafe
+  methods.
+
+This week:
+
+- `pub impl` was removed by Patrick Walton as part of [6944][is6944]. What
+  this did was have all `fn`s in a `pub impl` be `pub` by default. Now, you
+  must explicitly specify `pub` on all `fn`s in the impl if you want them
+  public.
+- Also in [6944][is6944], Patrick removed the ability to have multiple
+  patterns appear in "let" declarations. For example: `let a = 4, b = 2;`
+  becomes `let (a, b) = (4, 2);`
+- Daniel renamed the `Ptr` trait to `RawPtr` in [6913][is6913]
+- Daniel and Huon Wilson have been working on iterators a lot. In
+  [6999][is6999], they start removing the `vec::each_*` functions, as the new
+  iterator code in `std::iterator` is now mature enough for use.
+
+# Meetings
+
+There were two main meetings this week. Mostly discussion about DST, closures,
+and the GC. Lots of issues and details remain to be worked out, I suspoect it
+will still be a bit before anything final-looking comes up in a PR. See the
+[meeting][mtg1] [notes][mtg2] for more details.
+
+# Meetups
+
+- Erick Tryzelaar has a meetup planned in Mountain View on Wednesday, June 12,
+  at 7pm. See the [ML thread][sanfran] for more details.
+- Tim Chevalier will be giving a talk titled "Rust: A Friendly Introduction"
+  on Monday, June 17, 6-9pm in Portland. See [Calagator][rafi] for more details.
+
+# Prominent blog posts and ML threads
+
+- <https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-June/004364.html>
+- <http://blog.pnkfx.org/blog/2013/06/07/detective-work-on-rust-closures/>
+- <http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2013/06/03/more-on-fns/>
+- <http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2013/06/06/reducing-dst-annotation/>
+- <http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2013/06/02/removing-garbage-collection-from-the-rust-language/>
+
+# Other announcements
+
+- 10gen has some interns working on a MongoDB driver for Rust, which will be
+  very nice to have. Good luck to them!
+- Brendan Zabarauskas has fixed `lmath`. It now works on incoming. Yay!
+
+Brendan sent in a correction:
+
+{% blockquote %}
+Unfortunately whilst it builds on incoming, due to a bug you can't use it in
+external crates. moonchrome and I am are working on fixing this but it will
+require us to remove the trait heirachy and use macros to generate each type
+(Vec3f, Vec3f32, ... etc.) individually instead. Integer and Boolean vector
+types (present in GLSL) will also be removed.
+{% endblockquote %}
+
+[is6045]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/6045
+[is6881]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/6881
+[is6977]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/6977
+[is6826]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/6826
+[is6944]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/6944
+[is6913]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/6913
+[mtg1]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Meeting-weekly-2013-06-04
+[mtg2]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Meeting-2013-06-07
+[rafi]: http://calagator.org/events/1250464376
+[sanfran]: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-June/004356.html
+[is6999]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/6999