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Tweet us at [@ThisWeekInRust](https://twitter.com/ThisWeekInRust) or [send us a pull request](https://github.com/cmr/this-week-in-rust). +Want to get involved? [We love contributions](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md). + +*This Week in Rust* is openly developed [on GitHub](https://github.com/cmr/this-week-in-rust). +If you find any errors in this week's issue, [please submit a PR](https://github.com/cmr/this-week-in-rust/pulls). + +# Updates from Rust Community + +## News & Blog Posts + +* [Writing an OS in Rust: Heap allocation](https://os.phil-opp.com/heap-allocation/). +* [Non-lexical lifetimes arrives for everyone](http://blog.pnkfx.org/blog/2019/06/26/breaking-news-non-lexical-lifetimes-arrives-for-everyone/). +* [Status of rust-analyzer: Achievements and Open Collective](https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/rust-analyzer-status-opencollective/). +* [TLS performance: rustls versus OpenSSL](https://jbp.io/2019/07/01/rustls-vs-openssl-performance.html). +* [Optimizing jieba-rs to be 33% faster than cppjieba](https://blog.paulme.ng/posts/2019-06-30-optimizing-jieba-rs-to-be-33percents-faster-than-cppjieba.html). +* [Brave improves its ad-blocker performance by 69x with new engine implementation in Rust](https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/). +* [Writing a small ray tracer in Rust and Zig](https://nelari.us/post/raytracer_with_rust_and_zig/). +* [Compiling Rust apps for Termux with nix-shell](https://blog.geemili.xyz/blog/rust-app-on-termux-with-nix/). +* [Building crates so they look like C(ABI) libraries](https://dev.to/luzero/building-crates-so-they-look-like-c-abi-libraries-1ibn). + +# Crate of the Week + +This week's crate is [aljabar](https://github.com/maplant/aljabar), an extremely generic linear algebra libary. Thanks to [Vikrant](https://users.rust-lang.org/t/crate-of-the-week/2704/574) for the suggestion! + +[Submit your suggestions and votes for next week][submit_crate]! + +[submit_crate]: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/crate-of-the-week/2704 + +# 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. + +* [TiKV: Replace Debug formatting with Display formatting in errors, panics and logs](https://github.com/tikv/tikv/issues/4960). +* [Goblin: Crash on malformed ELF file](https://github.com/m4b/goblin/issues/120). Goblin is an impish, cross-platform binary parsing crate, written in Rust. + +gfx-rs introduces the [contributor-friendly](https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Acontributor-friendly) label for issues that are appropriately inviting to new members: + +* [Should have a way of telling whether backend is supported](https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx/issues/2783). +* [A comparative table of HAL features available per backend](https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx/issues/2547). +* (hal) [Consider removing typed command buffers, pools and queues](https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx/issues/2862). +* (metal) [Try Kudzu instead of storage-map](https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx/issues/2860). +* (dx12) [Support VertexIndex and InstanceIndex semantics](https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx/issues/2589). +* (dx12) [Pipeline caches](https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx/issues/2877). + +If you are a Rust project owner and are looking for contributors, please submit tasks [here][guidelines]. + +[guidelines]: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/twir-call-for-participation/4821 + +# Updates from Rust Core + +196 pull requests were [merged in the last week][merged] + +[merged]: https://github.com/search?q=is%3Apr+org%3Arust-lang+is%3Amerged+merged%3A2019-06-24..2019-07-01 + +* [Clean up query cache code](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/59722) +* [Don't ICE on mutable zst slices](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/62094) +* [syntax: Remove `ast::Guard`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/62075) +* [Always parse `async unsafe fn` + properly ban in 2015](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/62241) +* [Call out explicitly that general read needs to be called with an initialized buffer](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/62102) +* [Fix error counting](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/62055) +* [Use ecx for const-prop local storage](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/62012) +* [Fix HIR visit order](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/61572) +* [Extend the `#[must_use]` lint to boxed types](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/62228) +* [Extend the `#[must_use]` lint to arrays](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/62235) +* [Clean up MIR drop generation](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/61872) +* [Use a more efficient iteration order for backward dataflow](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/62063) +* [Use a more efficient iteration order for forward dataflow](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/62062) +* [save-analysis: Use buffered writes](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/62164) +* [Remove `FnBox`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/62043) +* [rustdoc: Remove unused derives and variants](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/62224) +* [rustdoc: Prevent panic when sysroot cannot be computed](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/61459) +* [backtrace: More improvements to gimli support](https://github.com/rust-lang/backtrace-rs/pull/217) +* [rustup: Switch to `std::fs::read_to_string`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup.rs/pull/1906) + +## Approved RFCs + +Changes to Rust follow the Rust [RFC (request for comments) +process](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs#rust-rfcs). These +are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week: + +* [RFC 2359: Finalize syntax for slice patterns with subslices](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2359). +* [RFC 2707: Make `..` a pattern syntactically](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2707). + +## Final Comment Period + +Every week [the team](https://www.rust-lang.org/team.html) announces the +'final comment period' for RFCs and key PRs which are reaching a +decision. Express your opinions now. + +### [RFCs](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/labels/final-comment-period) + +* [disposition: merge] [Permit impl Trait in type aliases](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2515). +* [disposition: merge] [Add key and value methods to DebugMap](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2696). + +### [Tracking Issues & PRs](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/labels/final-comment-period) + +* [disposition: merge] [Stabilize todo macro](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/61879). +* [disposition: merge] [Add `impl FromIterator for Arc/Rc<[T]>`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/61953). + +## New RFCs + +*No new RFCs were proposed this week.* + +# Upcoming Events + +### Asia Pacific + +* [Jul 7. Tokyo, JP - Tokyo Rust Meetup - Rust LT #6](https://rust.connpass.com/event/133657/). +* [Jul 10. Petaling Jaya, MY - Rust Meetup July 2019](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeyDIRlKFE0h4gJ8cxL6tz_3G4p7k4okZZBNhGbuitlOqBJOg/viewform). + +### Europe + +* [Jul 9. Göteborg, SE - Rust Gbg — July 2019](https://www.meetup.com/rustgbg/events/262786615/). +* [Jul 10. Berlin, DE - OpenTechSchool Berlin - Rust Hack and Learn](https://www.meetup.com/opentechschool-berlin/events/gkkttqyzkbnb/). +* [Jul 18. Turin, IT - Mozilla Torino - Gruppo di studio Rust](https://www.meetup.com/Mozilla-Torino/events/258593192). + +### North America + +* [Jul 9. Redmond, WA, US - Seattle Rust Meetup - Monthly meetup](https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Rust-Meetup/events/gfnncryzkbmb/). +* [Jul 10. Vancouver, BC, CA - Vancouver Rust meetup](https://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Rust/events/fzqqwqyzkbnb/). +* [Jul 11. Columbus, OH, US - Columbus Rust Society - Monthly Meeting](https://www.meetup.com/columbus-rs/events/dbcfrpyzkbpb/). +* [Jul 11. San Diego, CA, US - San Diego Rust July Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/San-Diego-Rust/events/262650307/). +* [Jul 17. San Francisco, CA, US - Rust in Blockchain San Francisco - In Rust We Trust](https://www.meetup.com/Rust-in-Blockchain-San-Francisco/events/262773260/). + +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][community] for access. + +[calendar]: https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=apd9vmbc22egenmtu5l6c5jbfc%40group.calendar.google.com +[community]: mailto:community-team@rust-lang.org + +# Rust Jobs + +* [Blockchain Runtime Engineer at Parity, Berlin, DE or remote](https://www.parity.io/jobs/#berlin-blockchain-runtime-engineer). + +*Tweet us at [@ThisWeekInRust](https://twitter.com/ThisWeekInRust) to get your job offers listed here!* + +# Quote of the Week + +> Python and Go pick up your trash for you. C lets you litter everywhere, but throws a fit when it steps on your banana peel. Rust slaps you and demands that you clean up after yourself. + +– [Nicholas Hahn on his blog](http://www.nicolas-hahn.com/python/go/rust/programming/2019/07/01/program-in-python-go-rust/) + +Thanks to [UtherII](https://users.rust-lang.org/t/twir-quote-of-the-week/328/662) for the suggestion! + +[Please submit quotes and vote for next week!](https://users.rust-lang.org/t/twir-quote-of-the-week/328) + +*This Week in Rust is edited by: [nasa42](https://github.com/nasa42), [llogiq](https://github.com/llogiq), and [Flavsditz](https://github.com/Flavsditz).* + +[Discuss on r/rust](). -- cgit v1.2.3