News

ripgrep 0.10.0 released (PCRE2 and multi-line support).
https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/tag/0.10.0

rustfmt, compiled to wasm, in a webpage.
https://alexcrichton.github.io/rustfmt-wasm/

Rust faster – SIMD edition.
https://llogiq.github.io/2018/09/06/fast.html

2019 Strategy for rustc and the RLS.
https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/2019-strategy-for-rustc-and-the-rls/8361

Adventures in Rust: Futures and Tokio.
http://bryangilbert.com/post/code/rust/adventures-futures-tokio-rust/

From Rust to beyond, episode 4: The C galaxy. An end-to-end example, includes cbindgen and clang.
https://mnt.io/2018/09/11/from-rust-to-beyond-the-c-galaxy/

Parallelizing PNG, part 5: choosing Rust for mtpng.
https://brionv.com/log/2018/09/09/parallelizing-png-part-5-choosing-rust-for-mtpng/

Tower Web - Expanding the middleware stack.
https://medium.com/@carllerche/tower-web-expanding-the-middleware-stack-f9bf55bfa109

Beware the rust cache on Travis (or why you should use it with care).
https://levans.fr/rust_travis_cache.html

RustFest Rome CFP is open and supporter tickets available.
https://blog.rustfest.eu/this-week-in-rustfest-0-cfp-and-tickets

Videos from RustConf 2018.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL85XCvVPmGQi3tivxDDF1hrT9qr5hdMBZ

Rust Embedded WG newsletter 11.
https://rust-embedded.github.io/blog/2018-09-09-newsletter-11/

Crate of the week: cargo-src

This week's crate is cargo-src, a Rust source browser with syntax highlighting, jump to def, smart search and much more. Thanks to mark-i-m for the suggestion!

Framework-agnostic routing library: rouste

This week in Rust #252 — 18 sep 2018

https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2018/09/18/this-week-in-rust-252/

Updates from core

temporarily prohibit proc macro attributes placed after derives
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54277

add target thumbv7a-pc-windows-msvc
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53621

PowerPC: fix the calling convention for i1 arguments on PPC32
https://github.com/rust-lang/llvm/pull/127

allow for opting out of ThinLTO and clean up LTO related cli flag handling
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53950

resolve: allow only core, std, meta and --extern in Rust 2018 paths
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54116

resolve: do not error on access to proc macros imported with #[macro_use]
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53461

add inspection and setter methods to proc_macro::Diagnostic
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/52896

support anoscription for patterns in NLL
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53873

allow named lifetimes in async functions
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54000

suggest && and || instead of 'and' and 'or'
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54181

use structured suggestion for "missing mut" label
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54157

de-overlap the lifetimes of flow_inits and flow_{un,ever_}inits
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54213

don't compute padding of braces unless they are unmatched
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54092

don't suggest extra clone when converting cloned slice to Vec
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54080

reexport CheckLintNameResult
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54106

miri: keep around some information for dead allocations
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54254

miri loop detector hashing
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54076

fix some uses of pointer intrinsics with invalid pointers
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53804

first step towards u128 instead of Const in PatternKind::Range
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/51159

stabilize outlives requirements
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53793

stabilize #[used]
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/51363

stabilize slice_align_to
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53754

implement tuple_struct_self_ctor (RFC #2302)
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53751

implement map_or_else for Result<T, E>
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53777

add a implementation of From for converting &'a Option<T> into Option<&'a T>
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53218

cargo: add empty ctrlc handler on Windows
https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/6004

News

🎈🎉 Announcing Rust 1.29. 🎉🎈
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/09/13/Rust-1.29.html

Ripgrep is available as a package in Ubuntu 18.10.
https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/pull/1054

WebRender is now enabled by default in Firefox Nightly on Windows 10 with Nvidia GPUs.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/x_sFbDgQJP0

RustConf 2018 closing keynote (blog post).
https://kyren.github.io/2018/09/14/rustconf-talk.html

Rising Tide: building a modular web framework in the open.
https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/wg-net/2018/09/11/tide.html

You can’t “turn off the borrow checker” in Rust.
https://words.steveklabnik.com/you-can-t-turn-off-the-borrow-checker-in-rust

Measuring SmallVec footprint with Smallvectune.
https://llogiq.github.io/2018/09/13/smallvec.html

How we organize a complex Rust codebase.
https://blog.getseq.net/rust-at-datalust-how-we-organize-a-complex-rust-codebase/

Desktop apps with Rust (Electorn + WebAssembly).
https://speice.io/2018/09/isomorphic-apps.html

Postgres over TLS with the postgres crate, r2d2_postgres and openssl.
https://matthewkmayer.github.io/blag/public/post/postgres-tls/

The Networking WG newsletter 1.
https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/the-networking-working-group-newsletter-01/8391

Crate of the week: mtpng

This week's crate is mtpng, a parallelized PNG encoder. Thanks to Willi Kappler for the suggestion!

This week in Rust #253 — 25 sep 2018

https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2018/09/25/this-week-in-rust-253/

Updates from core

switch linker for aarch64-pc-windows-msvc from LLD to MSVC
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54290

remove (more) CAS API from Atomic* types where not natively supported
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54280

parser: tweak function parameter parsing to avoid rollback on succesfull path
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54415

improve handling of type bounds in bit_set.rs
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54370

use HybridBitSet in SparseBitMatrix
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54318

merge bitvec.rs and indexed_set.rs
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54286

split Liveness::users into three
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54211

compress Liveness data some more
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54420

NLL: deduplicate errors for incorrect move in loop
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53995

NLL: rework checking for borrows conflicting with drops
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54509

report when borrow could cause &mut aliasing during Drop
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54310

move std::os::raw::c_void into libcore and re-export in libstd and
Re-export core::ffi::c_void if it exists (RFC #2521)
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53910

make rustc::middle::region::Scope's fields public
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54260

miri: correctly compute expected alignment for field
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54298

extend MIR inlining to all operand variants
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54416

std: check for overflow in str::repeat
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54399

switch wasm math symbols to their original names
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54257

update to a new pinning API
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53877

implement [T]::copy_within
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53652

implement MaybeUninit
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53508

Duration div mul extras
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/52813

cargo: fix missing messages when --message-format=json is deeply nested
https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/6081

cargo: fix incomplete conflict set backjump
https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/5988

News

🎈🎉 Announcing Rust 1.29.1. 🎉🎈
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/09/25/Rust-1.29.1.html

Citybound: Introducing live builds.
http://aeplay.co/citybound-devblog/introducing-live-builds

The biggest wasm-pack release yet.
https://rustwasm.github.io/2018/09/24/the-biggest-wasm-pack-release-yet.html

Office hours with Niko Matsakis: Debugging with GDB.
http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2018/09/21/office-hours-0-debugging-with-gdb/

Office hours with Niko Matsakis: Cyclic services.
http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2018/09/24/office-hours-1-cyclic-services/

Rust on iOS: How to.
https://github.com/mtak-/rust-on-mobile/blob/master/examples/ios/example01.md

A Rust FFI adventure in unsafety.
https://travisf.net/capstone-rs-unsafety-adventure

How to integrate Rust with C#.
https://blog.getseq.net/rust-at-datalust-how-we-integrate-rust-with-csharp/

Rewriting a bash noscript in Rust.
https://wiredforge.com/blog/misc/getpid/index.html

Creating a robot for Eurobot in Rust: The context.
https://blog.florencepaul.com/creating-a-robot-for-eurobot-part-1-context

Incinerator: The ABA problem and concurrent reclamation.
https://bzim.gitlab.io/blog/posts/incinerator-the-aba-problem-and-concurrent-reclamation.html

Crate of the week: packed_simd

This week's crate is packed_simd, a crate with portable SIMD vector types. Thanks to Gabriel Majeri for the suggestion!

This week in Rust #254 — 02 oct 2018

https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2018/10/02/this-week-in-rust-254/

Updates from core

Stabilize pattern_parentheses feature.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54497

Support an explicit annotation for marker traits.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53693

Better user experience when attempting to call associated functions with dot notation.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54308

Add &quot;temporary value borrowed for too long&quot; error.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54164

Remove -Z disable_ast_check_for_mutation_in_guard.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54676

Add a -C default-linker-libraries option.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54675

Implement the dbg!(..) macro.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54317

Add -Z emit-stack-sizes.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/51946

impl trait in bindings (feature: impl-trait-existential-types.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53542

Make &quot;await&quot; a pseudo-edition keyword.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54411

Use full name to identify a macro in a FileName.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54338

Introduce the partition_dedup/by/by_key methods for slices.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54058

Rework how we handle outlives relationships.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54453

NLL: Get Polonius borrow check to work in simple cases.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54468

NLL: Be more permissive when checking access due to Match.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53438

NLL: Rework checking for borrows conflicting with drops.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54509

Don't lint non-extern-prelude extern crate's in Rust 2018.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54650

Deny the overflowing_literals lint for the 2018 edition.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54507

Rename slice::exact_chunks() to slice::chunks_exact().
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54537

Avoid loading constructor attributes in AdtDef decoding.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54485

Panic when using mem::uninitialized or mem::zeroed on an uninhabited type.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54667

Improvements to finding LLVM's FileCheck.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54558

In which we include attributes in unused extern crate suggestion spans.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54488

In which inferable outlives-requirements are linted.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53013

Add a per-tree error cache to the obligation forest.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53255

News

Announcing the web-sys crate!
https://rustwasm.github.io/2018/09/26/announcing-web-sys.html

The relative performance of C and Rust.
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/28/the-relative-performance-of-c-and-rust/

Understanding compilers — for humans (version 2).
https://towardsdatascience.com/understanding-compilers-for-humans-version-2-157f0edb02dd

How I’ve found vulnerability in a popular Rust crate (and you can too).
https://medium.com/@shnatsel/how-ive-found-vulnerability-in-a-popular-rust-crate-and-you-can-too-3db081a67fb

lolbench: automagically and empirically discovering Rust performance regressions.
https://blog.anp.lol/rust/2018/09/29/lolbench/

This week in Rust and WebAssembly 8.
https://rustwasm.github.io/2018/10/01/this-week-in-rust-wasm-008.html

The embedded WG newsletter 12.
https://rust-embedded.github.io/blog/2018-09-25-newsletter-12/

Crate of the week: Evcxr

This week's crate is Evcxr, a Rust REPL and Rust Jupyter Kernel. Thanks to Willi Kappler for the suggestion!

This week in Rust #255 — 09 oct 2018

https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2018/10/09/this-week-in-rust-255/

Updates from core

merge proc_macro_ expansion feature gates as proc_macro_hygiene
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/52121

proptest basic validation
https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/6149

allow both explicit and elided lifetimes in the same impl header
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54458

do not promote comparing function pointers
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54702

nest the impl Trait existential item inside the return type
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54741

do not normalize all non-scalar constants to a ConstValue::ScalarPair
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54693

fix dead code lint for functions using impl Trait
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54810

add suggestion for inverted function parameters
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54804

suggest to use self for fake-self from other languages
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54694

NLL: improve move error loop detection
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54343

make NLL suggest &quot;try removing &mut here&quot;
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54720

introduce TyKind::UnnormalizedProjection
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54789

stabilize min_const_fn
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54835

improve error message when trying to move from an Rc or Arc
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54703

revisit work on cvoid
https://github.com/rust-lang/libc/pull/1086

fix Once perf regression
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54662

make CStr::from_bytes_with_nul_unchecked() a const fn
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54745

std: start implementing wasm32 atomics
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54017

make spec_extend use for_each()
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/54761

News

Porting C to Rust, a case study: minimp3.
https://wiki.alopex.li/PortingCToRust

Lessons learned on writing web applications completely in Rust.
https://medium.com/@saschagrunert/lessons-learned-on-writing-web-applications-completely-in-rust-2080d0990287

comacro: a declarative building block for static analysis.
http://blog.lambdaverse.org/comacro

Oxidizing Python: Speeding up URL quoting by 10x using Rust.
https://tech.blue-yonder.com/oxidizing-python-speeding-up-urlquoting-by-using-rust/

GLSL quasiquoting in Rust.
https://phaazon.net/blog/glsl-quasiquoting

Going four times faster using multi-threading.
http://worthe-it.co.za/programming/2018/10/03/going-four-times-faster-with-multithreading.html

Bluetooth Low Energy with Rust.
https://219design.com/bluetooth-low-energy-with-rust/

Hunting for bugs in Rust.
https://blog.troutwine.us/2018/10/08/hunting-for-bugs-in-rust/

Who authors the most popular crates on crates.io?
https://words.steveklabnik.com/who-authors-the-most-popular-crates-on-crates-io

Rust's story for default arguments.
https://medium.com/@softprops/default-values-copy-that-ae43831781f3

Remacs continues to improve.
http://db48x.net/rust-remacs-2018/

Future directions for cbindgen (rust-ffi).
http://dreamingofbits.com/post/future-directions-for-cbindgen-rust-ffi/

The Embedded WG newsletter 13.
https://rust-embedded.github.io/blog/2018-10-09-newsletter-13/

Crate of the week: pest

This week's crate is pest, a Parsing Expression Grammar-based parser library. Thanks to CAD97 for the suggestion!

This week in Rust #256 — 16 oct 2018

https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2018/10/16/this-week-in-rust-256/