June 2019

[Florob]

ToDo

• [x] Settle for a date and location: Monday 2019-06-10, 19:15 CET at C4 (default: first Wednesday each month)
• [ ] Send "Save the Date" info (with link to this ticket)
• [ ] Basic Agenda (default: Open Space)
• [x] Final invitation (deadline 2019-06-06)
  • [x] meetup
  • [x] website
  • [x] [twitter]
  • [ ] [community calendar]
  • [ ] [reddit]
  • [ ] [rust-lang forum]

Invitation draft

Title: Four Years of Rust

Since our last meetup Rust has turned [4 years old][four] (Rust 1.0 was released May 15th, 2015).
In the meantime a lot has happened: We've seen 35 minor releases, many added features,
and a new [Rust Edition][edition].

At our upcoming meetup we want to celebrate 4 years of Rust, and tell each other about our favorite
language features. Everyone is invited to participate and give a quick lightning talk about their
most beloved Rust feature.
If you're still new to the language and just want to listen in and enjoy a drink, that's fine too.

Talks should be about 5 minutes long, with additional time for discussion afterwards.

The meetup will take place on **Monday, June 10th, 2019** at **19:15**.
This is different from our usual schedule due to a clash of events on the regular date.

We are looking forward to seeing you. :-)

Yours,
Florian

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The meetup will likely be held in English, we will however reevaluate this at the beginning of the evening and may switch to German if desired.

[four]: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/05/15/4-Years-Of-Rust.html
[edition]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/

Rust News

• Rust's fourth birthday
  • May 15th
  • 4 years since 1.0
• decision on await syntax
  • field access like future.await
  • came out of lengthy discussion sparked by problems with precedence of await future?
  • implemented on nightly
• Rust parallelism for non-C/C++ developers
• Unsafe Code Guidelines Reference now available online
• Rust 1.35.0
  • Fn{,Once,Mut} is now implemented for Box<Fn{,Once,Mut}
  • Threads show ID in Debug output
  • dbg!() can now be called without parameters
  • contains() method on ranges

[mre]

Do we have any talks yet? Maybe we should ask around on Twitter. If we can't find a speaker, I could do a talk about Rust and WebAssembly. It's an adaption of a talk I gave two weeks ago at the Web Engineering meetup. Open for suggestions.

[Florob]

@mre Thank you for the offer. I have something a bit different in mind for this time around, cf. the announcement in the issue.

[mre]

Ah alright. I mistook the announcement with the default template. Sounds great.

[kawogi]

The Wednesday in the ToDo list should probably be a Monday.

[kawogi]

I just noticed that this is a public holiday, so I won't be able to attend (once more).

[rabite0]

Here are the slides from yesterday. I included both the shorter version from yesterday, as well as a longer version which also contains some more basic stuff in the beginning. The org-file, a latex file created from that, and the pictures are in there too, if case you want do any changes.

rust-talk.zip

[mre]

Nice! Thanks @rabite0.