Hi Corey,

I just wanted to thank you for the "This Week in Rust" notes.  I love
reading them and I am sure that I am not the only one who appreciates the
effort that you put into each one.

Cadence


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Corey Richardson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Welcome to another issue of *This Week in Rust!* This week marks the
> addition
> of some more feature gates, removal of `std::io`, and some feature
> proposals.
>
> # What's cooking on master?
>
> 47 PRs were merged this week, and we passed issue number 10000.
>
> ## Breaking Changes
>
> - Most of the crypto in the stdlib [has been
>   removed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9744).
> - `std::io` [has been removed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9901),
>   with corresponding improvements in `std::rt::io`.
> - The `frame_address` intrinsic [has been
>   removed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10040).
> - `@`-ptrs are [now feature-gated](
> https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9923),
>   reflecting the fact that they will exist in a very different form once
> they
>   are finished.
> - All of the logging that used `fmt` (`debug!` and so forth) [have been
>   transitioned to `format!`](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10006).
> - `asm!` [is also featured gated](
> https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10009).
> - `sys::log_str` [has moved](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9937).
>
> ## Other changes
>
> - The long-awaited addition of `mut` in patterns [has finally
>   happened](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10026). `let (mut x, y)
> = (1,
>   2);` works.
> - The scheduler now uses [lock free data
>   structures](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10080), which are
> supposed
>   to perform much better.
> - The homing code [now does less
>   work](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10070), which does one third
> as
>   many `write`'s.
> - `stdout` [is now buffered](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10060).
> - A [non-libuv event loop](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10054) has
>   been added.
> - `std::rand` has seen [more](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9810)
>   [work](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10015).
> - `rustpkg` [now supports arbitrary
>   dependencies](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9654), such as C
>   libraries.
> - `mut` is [now allowed on self](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9989
> ).
> - Nested comments [are now
>   allowed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9936).
> - `rustpkg` will now [find crates in the current directory], so you can say
>   `rustpkg build` in a source dir and it will build in a workspace.
> - Some new float intrinsics [have been
>   exposed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9986).
> - `println!` [allocates less](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9979).
>
> ## New contributors
>
> - Igor Bukanov
> - Mark Rowe
> - Michael Letterle
> - reedlepee
>
> # Announcements etc
>
> - There will be a
>   [meetup](http://www.meetup.com/Rust-Bay-Area/events/143439552/) in the
> San
>   Fransisco Mozilla office. Patrick Walton will be talking about
> sprocketnes.
>   If you're in the area, you should definitely go!
> - [rust-ci](http://hiho.io/rust-ci/) has been created, which lets you have
>   travis automatically rebuild and test your repo daily, to reduce
>   language/library breakage.
> - [rust-mustache](https://github.com/erickt/rust-mustache) and
>   [rust-zmq](https://github.com/erickt/rust-zmq) have been updated for
> master.
> - [Short talk about Rust at Scala.IO in Paris (October
>   25th)](
> http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1pdrv6/short_talk_about_rust_at_scalaio_in_paris_october/
> ).
> - [A Bit of Functional Programming in Rust, or A Misguided First Look at
> Rust
>   for ML
>       Programmers](
> http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1pe2lc/a_bit_of_functional_programming_in_rust_or_a/
> ).
> - [A draft proposal for single
>   inheritance](
> http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1p52tj/a_draft_proposal_for_single_inheritance_in_rust/
> ).
> - [Iterators yielding mutable
>   references](
> http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1p4vnk/iterators_yielding_mutable_references/
> ).
> - [Servo transitions from libcss to a new CSS library written in
>   Rust](
> http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1p4qeh/servo_transitions_from_libcss_to_a_new_css/
> ).
> - [On stack
>   safety](http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1owhwi/on_stack_safety/).
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