Title: This Week in Rust 104 Number: 104 Date: 2015-11-09 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? Tweet us at [@ThisWeekInRust](https://twitter.com/ThisWeekInRust) or [send us 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/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). This week's edition was edited by: [nasa42](https://github.com/nasa42), [brson](https://github.com/brson), and [llogiq](https://github.com/llogiq). # Updates from Rust Community ## News & Blog Posts * There were two major breaking events in the ecosystem this week due to [a libc upgrade](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3s43n4/discussion_lessons_learned_following_the_recent) and [a winapi upgrade](https://github.com/retep998/winapi-rs/issues/238). * [Bare metal Rust: Low-level CPU I/O ports](http://www.randomhacks.net/2015/11/09/bare-metal-rust-cpu-port-io/). * [Macros in Rust - Part 1](http://ncameron.org/blog/macros-in-rust-pt1/). * [Macros in Rust - Part 2](http://www.ncameron.org/blog/macros-in-rust-pt2/). Procedural macros. * [Macros in Rust - Part 3](http://www.ncameron.org/blog/macros-in-rust-pt3/). Macro hygiene in Rust. * [Using rustfmt in Vim](http://johannh.me/blog/rustfmt-vim.html). * [Writing my first Rust crate: jsonwebtoken](https://blog.wearewizards.io/writing-my-first-rust-crate-jsonwebtoken). * [Learning to 'try!' things in Rust](http://www.jonathanturner.org/2015/11/learning-to-try-things-in-rust.html). * [video] [Concurrency in Rust](https://vimeo.com/144809407). * [This week in Redox 5](http://www.redox-os.org/news/this-week-in-redox-5/). * [This week in Servo 40](http://blog.servo.org/2015/11/02/twis-40/). ## Notable New Crates & Projects * [Organn](https://github.com/monsieursquirrel/organn). A simple drawbar organ in Rust. * [libloading](https://github.com/nagisa/rust_libloading). A safer binding to platform’s dynamic library loading utilities. # Updates from Rust Core 104 pull requests were [merged in the last week][merged]. [merged]: https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Apr+org%3Arust-lang+is%3Amerged+merged%3A2015-11-02..2015-11-09 See the [triage digest][triage] for more details. [triage]: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/triage-digest-tue-nov-03-2015/2865 ## Notable changes * [Library FCP Issues for the 1.6 cycle](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/library-fcp-issues-for-the-1-6-cycle/2872). * [Deprecate `_ms` functions that predate the `Duration` API](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/29604). * [Implement `IntoIterator` for `&{Path, PathBuf}`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/29514). * [Use guard-pages also on DragonFly/FreeBSD](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/29510). * [Make Windows directory layout uniform with everything else](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/29500). * [Expose `drop_in_place` as `ptr::drop_in_place`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/29475). * [Make all integer intrinsics generic](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/29316). * [Check whether a supertrait contains Self even without being it](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/29259). * [Improve error handling in libsyntax](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/29285). ## New Contributors * Amanieu d'Antras * Amit Saha * Bruno Tavares * Daniel Trebbien * Ivan Kozik * Jake Worth * jrburke * Kyle Mayes * Oliver Middleton * Rizky Luthfianto ## 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 1298: Enable the compiler to cache incremental workproducts](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1298). ## Final Comment Period Every week [the team](https://rust-lang.org/team.html) announces the 'final comment period' for RFCs and key PRs which are reaching a decision. Express your opinions now. [This week's FCPs][fcp] are: [fcp]: https://github.com/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+org%3Arust-lang+label%3Afinal-comment-period+is%3Aopen * [Allow overlapping implementations for marker traits](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1268). * [`#[deprecated]` for Everyone](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1270). * [Improvements to the Time APIs](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1288). * [Define the general semantics of intrinsic functions](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1300). * [Add an `alias` attribute to `#[link]` and `-l`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1296). ## New RFCs * [Add `retain_mut` to `Vec` and `VecDeque`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1353). * [Add `#[cfg(...)]` attribute to enable conditional compilation dependent on size and alignment of FFI types](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1354). # Upcoming Events * [11/9. Seattle Rust Meetup](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mozilla-rust-seattle-meetup-tickets-12222326307?aff=erelexporg). * [11/10. San Diego Rust Meetup #10](http://www.meetup.com/San-Diego-Rust/events/226048826/). * [11/11. RustBerlin Hack and Learn](http://www.meetup.com/Rust-Berlin/). * [11/13. Rust Rhein-Main](http://www.meetup.com/Rust-Rhein-Main/events/225850710/). * [11/14. Rust at the Hungarian Web Conference](http://webconf.hu/2015/program/index.php#i2015_03). * [11/16. Rust Paris](http://www.meetup.com/Rust-Paris). * [11/17. Rust Hack and Learn Hamburg](http://www.meetup.com/Rust-Meetup-Hamburg/events/226298232/?a=ea1_grp&rv=ea1&_af=event&_af_eid=226298232&https=off). * [11/18. Rust Los Angeles Monthly Meetup](http://www.meetup.com/Rust-Los-Angeles/events/226074704/). 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 # fn work(on: RustProject) -> Money * [Research Engineer - Servo](https://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/ozy21fwU) at Mozilla. *Tweet us at [@ThisWeekInRust](https://twitter.com/ThisWeekInRust) to get your job offers listed here!* # Crate of the Week This week's Crate of the Week is [ramp](https://crates.io/crates/ramp). Ramp supplies some high performance low memory easy to use big integral types. Whenever you need integers too large for a `u64` and cannot afford to lose precision, ramp has just what you need. Thanks to [zcdziura](https://users.rust-lang.org/users/zcdziura) for this week's suggestion. [Submit your suggestions for next week][submit_crate]! # Quote of the Week > with **unsafe** > .... **if** you have to ask, then you probably shouldn't **be** doing it > basically — Steve Klabnik on [#rust IRC](https://botbot.me/mozilla/rust/msg/53505463/). Thanks to [Oliver Schneider](https://users.rust-lang.org/users/oli_obk) for the tip. [Submit your quotes for next week][submit]! [submit]: http://users.rust-lang.org/t/twir-quote-of-the-week/328 [submit_crate]: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/crate-of-the-week/2704