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+Title: This Week in Rust 77
+Date: 2015-04-13
+Category: This Week in Rust
+
+Hello and welcome to another issue of *This Week in Rust*!
+[Rust](http://rust-lang.org) is a systems language pursuing the trifecta:
+safety, concurrency, and speed. This is a weekly summary of its progress and
+community. Want something mentioned? [Send me an
+email!](mailto:corey@octayn.net?subject=This%20Week%20in%20Rust%20Suggestion)
+Want to get involved? [We love
+contributions](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Note-guide-for-new-contributors).
+
+*This Week in Rust* is openly developed [on GitHub](https://github.com/cmr/this-week-in-rust).
+If you find any errors or omissions in this week's issue, [please submit a PR](https://github.com/cmr/this-week-in-rust/pulls).
+
+# What's cooking on master?
+
+104 pull requests were [merged in the last week][merged], and 6 [RFC PRs][rfcs].
+
+[merged]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+merged%3A2015-04-06..2015-04-13
+[rfcs]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+merged%3A2015-04-06..2015-04-13
+
+Now you can follow breaking changes *[as they happen][BitRust]*!
+
+[BitRust]: http://rawgit.com/mrmonday/bitrust/gh-pages/index.html
+
+# Breaking Changes
+
+* [Set `CLOEXEC` for all fds on Unix by default](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/24034)
+* [Convert lifetime shadowing into a hard error](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/24057)
+* [Use discriminant_value intrinsic for `derive(PartialOrd)`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/24270)
+
+# Other Changes
+
+* [Phil Dawes refactored a bunch of the parser to return `Result` insteadof panicking](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/23857)
+* [Implemented remaining string pattern API](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/23952)
+* [Implement reentrant mutexes and make stdio use them](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/24029)
+* [Prefer ObjectCandidate to ImplCandidate if both apply](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/24056)
+* [Michael Sproul added some more extended errors and improved their display](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/24143)
+* [Implement io::Seek on BufReader and BufWriter](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/24176)
+* [Allow plugins to register LLVM passes](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/24207)
+* [Stabilize clone_from](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/24215)
+* [Stabilize Error::from_raw_os_error](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/24216)
+
+# New Contributors
+
+* Ben Ashford
+* Christopher Chambers
+* Dominick Allen
+* Hajime Morrita
+* Igor Strebezhev
+* Josh Triplett
+* Luke Gallagher
+* Michael Alexander
+* Michael Macias
+* Oak
+* Remi Rampin
+* Sean Bowe
+* Tibor Benke
+* Will Hipschman
+* Xue Fuqiao
+
+# Approved RFCs
+
+* [RFC 218: Empty struct with braces](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/218)
+* [RFC 639: discriminant_value intrinsic](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/639)
+* [RFC 888: Compiler fences](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0888-compiler-fence-intrinsics.md)
+* [RFC 911: Const functions and inherent methods](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0911-const-fn.md)
+
+# New RFCs
+
+* [Expand the scope of `std::fs`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1044)
+* [Rename `soft_link` to `symlink`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1048)
+* [Clarify cast rules, especially regarding fat pointers](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1052)
+* [Rename or replace `str::words`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1054)
+* [Redirecting stdio of child processes to open file handles](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1055)
+* [Add `Sync` to `io::Error`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1057)
+* [Replace `tail`/`init`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1058)
+
+# Notable Links
+
+* [Fearless concurrency with Rust](http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/10/Fearless-Concurrency.html)
+* [Featherweight musings: arrays and vectors in Rust](http://featherweightmusings.blogspot.com/2015/04/new-tutorial-arrays-and-vectors-in-rust.html).
+* [Newcomer to Rust: my experience](http://internals.rust-lang.org/t/newcomer-to-rust-my-experience/1816/1)
+* [Memcpy is
+  backwards](http://internals.rust-lang.org/t/memcpy-is-backwards/1797). There
+  was a big silently-breaking change to `copy_memory` right before the
+  beta.
+* [Bay Area Rust Meetup: Data Science](https://air.mozilla.org/bay-area-rust-meetup-april-2015/). Video from the SF meetup.
+* [Weekly-meetings/2015-04-07][mtg]: beta, abs, rustdoc, wiki, docs
+* [Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz talk about Rust on The Changelog #151](https://thechangelog.com/151/)
+* [Aaron Turon's Stanford talk (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5vzLKg7y-k).
+* [A page of useful links for new contributors](http://www.ncameron.org/rust.html).
+
+[mtg]: https://github.com/rust-lang/meeting-minutes/blob/master/weekly-meetings/2015-04-07.md
+
+# Project Updates
+
+* [Racer progress update 5 (cargo support)](http://phildawes.net/blog/2015/04/05/racer5/).
+* [multirust](http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/10/Fearless-Concurrency.html). The Rust toolchain manager, updated with new features and bugfixes.
+* [reforge](https://github.com/tedsta/reforge). A multiplayer sandbox space combat MMO.
+* [The Hat Backup System](https://github.com/google/hat-backup).
+* [Piston 1.0 is released](http://blog.piston.rs/2015/04/07/piston-0.1/).
+* [gag](https://crates.io/crates/gag). Redirect stderr/stdout.
+* [afl.rs](https://github.com/kmcallister/afl.rs). Integrating American Fuzzy-Lop with Rust.
+* [hyper on beta](http://seanmonstar.com/post/115873169212/hyper-on-beta).
+* [Raft: Small status update](http://hoverbear.org/2015/04/09/raft-the-next-generation-3/).
+* [This Week in Servo 30](http://blog.servo.org/2015/04/09/twis-30/).
+* [A Chef comunity cookbook for Rust](https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/rustlang).
+* [A Docker image for Rust](https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/jimmycuadra/rust/).
+* [Rust_Classifier](https://github.com/jackm321/Rust_Classifier). A naive Bayes classifier.
+* [Pool](https://github.com/carllerche/pool). A pool for reusable values, from carllerche.
+* [ggp-rs](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3272b8/ggprs_a_library_for_creating_general_game_players/). A library for [General Game Playing](https://class.coursera.org/ggp-003).
+* [timer](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/326x5p/a_betacompatible_timer/). A timer to make up for the lack of one in std.
+* [retry](https://github.com/jimmycuadra/retry). Retry an operation until a condition is satisfied.
+* [query_rs](https://github.com/Mr-Byte/query_rs). LINQ-like macros.
+* [analit](https://github.com/jswrenn/analit). 'Analog' literals for geometric types.
+* [Google APIs for Rust - Dev Diary #1: How to write 78 APIs in 5s (video)](https://youtu.be/2U3SpepKaBE).
+* [All crates of the RustAudio project work with beta](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/32b74a/all_rustaudio_crates_now_build_on_the_stable/).
+* [eventual_io](https://github.com/carllerche/eventual_io). Async I/O with mio and eventual.
+* [serde, the serialization library, is beta-compatible](https://erickt.github.io/blog/2015/04/12/serde-0-dot-3-1-now-compatible-with-beta/).
+* [nickel, the web framework, is on crates.io](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/32dhwb/nickel_is_on_cratesio/).
+* [coroutine-rs](https://github.com/rustcc/coroutine-rs). Coroutines.
+
+# Upcoming Events
+
+* [4/13 Seattle](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mozilla-rust-seattle-meetup-tickets-12222326307?aff=erelexporg)
+* [4/14 Sydney](http://www.meetup.com/Rust-Sydney/events/221388677/)
+* [4/20 Paris](http://www.meetup.com/Rust-Paris)
+* [4/22 Columbus Rust Society](http://www.meetup.com/columbus-rs/). Their inaugural event.
+
+If you are running a Rust event please add it to the [calendar] to get
+it mentioned here. Email [Erick Tryzelaar][erickt] or [Brian
+Anderson][brson] for access.
+
+[calendar]: https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=apd9vmbc22egenmtu5l6c5jbfc%40group.calendar.google.com
+[erickt]: mailto:erick.tryzelaar@gmail.com
+[brson]: mailto:banderson@mozilla.com
+
+# Quote of the Week
+
+```
+<frankmcsherry> rust is like a big bucket of solder and wire, with the promise that you can't electrocute yourself.
+```
+
+From #rust.
+
+Thanks to BurntSushi for the tip. [Submit your quotes for next week!][submit].
+
+[submit]: http://users.rust-lang.org/t/twir-quote-of-the-week/328