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+Title: This Week in Rust 17
+Date: 2013-09-30 13:11
+Category: This Week in Rust
+Tags: rust, programming
+
+Welcome to another issue of *This Week in Rust*! This week saw the release of
+0.8, the removal of `@fn`, and a bunch of other changes. The tutorial has been
+updated significantly, surrounding pointers and boxes, so you should re-read
+those sections if you're still feeling shaky on when you should use which.
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+# What's cooking on master?
+
+There were 79 PRs merged this week.
+
+## Breaking changes
+
+- `printf!` and `printfln!` have been
+  [removed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9550).
+- `continue` is now a keyword, a [synonym for
+  `loop`](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9504), preceeding `loop`'s
+  removal (https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/9467)
+- Item visibility is [properly encoded in
+  metadata](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9432), so code which used
+  private items that may have worked before is now rejected.
+- Char literals which should have been escaped [are now rejected when they
+  aren't escaped](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9335).
+- `impl Foo for T;` is now [disallowed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9336).
+  Use `impl Foo for T {}`.
+- `@fn` has been [removed from the
+  language](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9310). Replace it with
+  `@Trait` objects, if you really need `@fn` (you probably don't).
+- `start` [no longer takes a crate
+  map](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9301).
+- Some more keywords have been
+  [reserved](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9389): `alignof`,
+  `offsetof`, and `sizeof`.
+
+## Everything else
+
+- A ton of documentation work was put in this week. The box section of the
+  tutorial has been [rewritten](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9589),
+  and there's a new [rustpkg
+  tutorial](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9439) too. The module
+  tutorial saw the file section
+  [extended](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9398). There was a bunch of
+  module documentation updated/added too.
+- rustdoc(_ng) also saw a lot of work. It [completely
+  replaced](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9402) the old rustdoc, as
+  well as seeing a [lot](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9577) of
+  [fixes](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9475). Huge thanks to Alex
+  Crichton for all the work with it!
+- `std::vec` has seen some [nice
+  changes](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9583) to `connect_vec` and
+  `concat_vec` (they were really awful before).
+- `rustpkg test` is [implemented](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9549).
+- `type_use` has been [removed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9538).
+  This did some nasty things and LLVM's `mergefunc` pass will do a better job
+  of the same optimization (once it's enabled).
+- `with_c_str` is now [optimized](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9352)
+  to be allocation-free for short vectors.
+- The logging system, when using the new formatting code (so `debug2` etc) is
+  [allocation-free](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9261).
+- `std::rand` has seen some
+  [cleanup](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9362), in preparation for its
+  overhaul.
+
+# Weekly Meeting
+
+The [weekly
+meeting](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Meeting-weekly-2013-09-24)
+discussed a bunch of things, the main things of importance to me being:
+
+- `loop` -> `continue`
+- Allowing nested comments
+
+# Announcements
+
+- [wxRust](https://github.com/kenz-gelsoft/wxRust) - A binding to the
+  wxWidgets toolkit.
+- [widmann](http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1neu74/the_start_of_a_sinatra_clone/)
+  \-  A Sinatra clone
+- [gl-rs](http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1nab2s/rustdev_opengl_glrs_updated_with_command_line/)
+  has been updated to generate only bindings for a select version / set of
+  extensions.
+- [Debugging Rust in
+  Eclipse](http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1n8y5b/debugging_rust_in_eclipse/)
+  \- Michael Woerister's final GSoC post. He did really great work this
+  summer!
+- [Rust for Rubyists](https://github.com/steveklabnik/rust_for_rubyists) has
+  been open sourced!
+- The [Claymore](https://code.google.com/p/claymore-game/) project has just
+  come to my attention. Apparently it has been going on for quite some time.
+  There are some screenshots at <http://claymore-dev.blogspot.com/>.
+- [rustenstein3d](https://github.com/JeremyLetang/rustenstein3D/) - a
+  Wolfenstein3D engine
+- [clio](https://github.com/eevee/clio), a roguelike. This one also slipped
+  under my radar for a while.
+- [rust-gmp](https://github.com/thestinger/rust-gmp) has been updated for
+  0.8/master.
+- [rustdoc_ng](https://github.com/cmr/rustdoc_ng), being merged into mainline,
+  has concluded as a project.
+- And, of course, the [0.8
+  release](http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1n7q8v/08_released/)
+  discussion on reddit.