Maintain a 'This Week in Rust' blog

[brson]

As the language stabilizes we need a little more PR. We should highlight the interesting things going on in the community.

[nikomatsakis]

Here are some suggestions for an initial report---

• marijn's work on breakable for loops
• tjc's work on classes
• pcwalton's work on regions, in particular the shootout benchmark
• brson's work on event loops
• not sure what else...those are the things I saw when I started going over the commit logs but I didn't get all the way through.

[jamorton]

+1

[brson]

I started writing about for loops and ended up with a whole post: http://brson.github.com/rust/2012/04/05/new-for-loops/. I didn't publish it widely but I did post a link on /r/rust.

niko and I discussed that maybe we should just keep a list of topics that are worth blogging about.

Here's another:

• how to use rustdoc

[brson]

• bindgen
• rust-mustache
• The opengl bindings
• erickt's new time APIs
• pfox's new uv APIs

[graydon]

Thanks for doing this. I'll try to contribute a few too.

[bstrie]

This is excellent, thanks! For the future, would it be possible to add the ability to subscribe via RSS, and perhaps also add commenting facilities?

[bstrie]

I especially think it's important to have commenting facilities on these posts in order to address concerns about language decisions in a timely manner. For instance, the Hacker News discussion ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3806152 ) has a few comments that would perhaps be best clarified by a developer.

[brson]

I added an RSS link on my blog. Will do comments over the weekend.

[catamorphism]

@Lenny222 That's basically Planet Research :-) -- http://planet.mozilla.org/research/

[brson]

More interesting blog topics:

option dance
synchronization primitives
freezing
multitasking tutorial
platform thread
any of pcwalton’s crazy stuff
rust’s cryptographic core + discussion of implementing hash tables
native bindings and interop examples
a full explanation of method lookup

[brson]

bors seems to be a pretty unique integration bot. could be worth talking about

[sanxiyn]

Linking http://cmr.github.io/blog/2013/06/07/this-week-in-rust/ here.

[emberian]

Hah, didn't know there was an issue open about this. You even stole my name from me with a time machine! I think this can be closed.