Add "This Week in Rust and WebAssembly 15"

Author: fitzgen

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+title:  "This Week in Rust and WebAssembly 15"
+---
+
+Hello and welcome to another issue of *This Week in Rust and WebAssembly*!
+
+[Rust](https://rust-lang.org) is a systems language pursuing the trifecta:
+safety, concurrency, and speed.
+
+[WebAssembly](http://webassembly.org) is a stack-based virtual machine and
+instruction set. It is fast, safe, portable, and part of the open Web
+platform. By compiling to WebAssembly, we can run Rust code on the Web!
+
+This is a weekly summary of Rust and WebAssembly's progress and community.
+
+Did we miss something? Tweet to us at [@rustwasm](https://twitter.com/rustwasm)
+or [send us a pull request](https://github.com/rustwasm/rustwasm.github.io).
+
+**Want to get involved in Rust and WebAssembly? [Join the Rust and WebAssembly working group!][get-involved]**
+
+## News and Blog Posts from Around the Web
+
+*Want to make sure something ends up on this list next time we publish an issue?
+[Leave a comment on this issue.](https://github.com/rustwasm/team/issues/79)*
+
+* [**Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the
+  web**](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/03/standardizing-wasi-a-webassembly-system-interface/)
+  * @alexcrichton already has a pull request to [add a `wasm32-unknown-wasi`
+    target](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/59464) for Rust!
+* `RustVolley` is a reimplementation of the Blobby Volley 2 game in Rust and Wasm
+  * [Source](https://github.com/RustyVolley/RustyVolleySrc)
+  * [Live Demo](https://rustyvolley.github.io/WebDemo/)
+* [CloudFlare's new `wrangler` CLI tool lets you deploy Rust-generated Wasm on
+  CloudFlare workers](https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-wrangler-cli/)
+* [Fastly open sources Lucet: a native WebAssembly compiler and
+  runtime.](https://www.fastly.com/blog/announcing-lucet-fastly-native-webassembly-compiler-runtime)
+  Its built with Rust on top of Cranelift and supports WASI.
+
+## Updates from [`rustwasm/*`](https://github.com/rustwasm)
+
+[**🎉 Welcome @Pauan to the Rust and WebAssembly working group core
+team! 🎉**](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/welcome-pauan-to-the-rust-and-webassembly-domain-working-group-core-team/9707)
+
+### RFCs
+
+#### New RFCs
+
+None.
+
+#### Final Comment Period RFCs
+
+* [Add an amendment to the RFC process](https://github.com/rustwasm/rfcs/pull/9)
+
+#### Merged RFCs
+
+None.
+
+### Working Group Meetings
+
+* [Watch the recording of this week's working group meeting on
+  YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaTwOc0eGb4)
+* [Come join us at next week's working group
+  meeting!](https://github.com/rustwasm/team/issues/264)
+
+### Gloo
+
+* [**Gloo Update: Onion Layers, Timers, and
+  Events**](https://rustwasm.github.io/2019/03/26/gloo-onion-layers.html)
+* @Aehmlo [split up the `gloo_timers` crate's public
+  API](https://github.com/rustwasm/gloo/pull/38) to use `callbacks` and
+  `futures` submodules, as we collectively agreed upon in other issues.
+* @cbrevik [implemented the `gloo_console_timer`
+  crate,](https://github.com/rustwasm/gloo/pull/32) which provides scoped
+  closures and RAII-style helpers for working with `console.time` and
+  `console.timeEnd`.
+* @OddCoincidence [updated the `gloo_timers`
+  internals](https://github.com/rustwasm/gloo/pull/48) to use
+  `wasm_bindgen::closures::Closure::once` for `setTimeout`.
+* @RyLev added some initial [Azure Pipelines continuous integration
+  tests](https://github.com/rustwasm/gloo/pull/46) for Gloo.
+* @David-OConnor added the [skeleton of an `mdbook`
+  guide](https://github.com/rustwasm/gloo/pull/45) for Gloo.
+
+### `wasm-bindgen`
+
+* @alexcrichton [tweaked the `no-modules` target's generated JavaScript glue for
+  instantiating Wasm
+  modules](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/pull/1384) to support
+  CloudFlare workers (and other environments where `x instanceof
+  WebAssembly.Module` might fail, like across `<iframe>`s)
+* @alexcrichton made it so that our emitted JS glue for reflecting Rust closures
+  as JS functions will properly [detect and protect against use-after-free from
+  the JS side.](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/pull/1385)
+* @alexcrichton fixed a bug where Rust structs exported as JS [didn't always
+  emit the JS classes glue in a deterministic
+  order.](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/pull/1383)
+* @fitzgen [made the "without a JS bundler" example use `wasm-pack build
+  --target web`,](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/pull/1382) now that
+  its supported in the latest `wasm-pack` release.
+* @alexcrichton [cleaned up the `wasm-bindgen` CLI's
+  options](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/pull/1369) to take `--target
+  blah` instead of `--blah` (which still exist but are deprecated).
+* @stevebob [enabled `mdbook`'s link checking tests for the `wasm-bindgen`
+  guide](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/pull/1358) to our continuous
+  integration tests.
+* @alexcrichton [implemented
+  `rustwasm/rfcs#8`](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/pull/1305) to
+  enable transitive crates dependencies on npm packages.
+* @RReverser [added the `constructor`
+  property](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/pull/1403) to
+  `js_sys::Object`.
+* @alexcrichton [fixed sending large
+  `u32`s](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/pull/1401) from Wasm to JS.
+* @RReverser [consistently exposed
+  `is_like_none`](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/pull/1398) for our
+  generated JS glue, fixing a bug along the way.
+* @RReverser [simplified the ABI
+  representation](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/pull/1397) of
+  `Option<char>`.
+* @alexcrichton [migrated all the `wasm-bindgen-*`
+  crates](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/pull/1395) to Rust 2018
+  edition.
+* @RReverser [made iterating over JS objects via the JS iteration protocol
+  faster](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/pull/1393) by removing
+  redundant property string decoding.
+* @RReverser [made a special version of passing strings from JS to
+  Wasm](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/pull/1391) when we are
+  targeting Node.js that is faster than using Node.js's `TextEncoder`
+  implementation.
+
+### `wasm-pack`
+
+* @alexcrichton [fixed a panic](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-pack/pull/598)
+  that could happen when installing the `wasm-bindgen` CLI tool.
+
+## Requests for Contribution
+
+**Want to get involved in Rust and WebAssembly? [Join the Rust and WebAssembly
+working group!][get-involved]**
+
+[get-involved]: https://github.com/rustwasm/team/blob/master/README.md#get-involved
+
+### New Good First Issues
+
+* [`wasm-bindgen`: `.d.ts` file for `--web` target does not define the `init()` function](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/issues/1390)
+* [`wasm-bindgen`: Closures should implement `std::fmt::Debug`](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/issues/1387)
+* [Gloo: Help ensure we have tracking issues on file for making utility crates for all Web platform features](https://github.com/rustwasm/gloo/issues/41)
+
+### New "Help Wanted" Issues
+
+* [`wasm-bindgen`: Closures should accept references as arguments](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/issues/1399)

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 **Want to get involved in Rust and WebAssembly? [Join the Rust and WebAssembly
 working group!][get-involved]**
 
-* [All issues labeled "good first issue" in the `rustwasm/*` repositories](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+user%3Arustwasm+archived%3Afalse+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22)
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-
 [get-involved]: https://github.com/rustwasm/team/blob/master/README.md#get-involved
 
 ### New Good First Issues