Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a systems language pursuing the trifecta: safety, concurrency, and speed. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tweet us at @ThisWeekInRust or send us an email! Want to get involved? We love contributions.

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This week's edition was edited by: nasa42 and llogiq.

Updates from Rust Community

News & Blog Posts

New Crates & Project Updates

Crate of the Week

This week's Crate of the Week is error-chain which feels like the missing piece in Rust's Result-based error-handling puzzle. Thanks to KodrAus for the suggestion.

Submit your suggestions for next week!

Call for Participation

Always wanted to contribute to open-source projects but didn't know where to start? Every week we highlight some tasks from the Rust community for you to pick and get started!

Some of these tasks may also have mentors available, visit the task page for more information.

If you are a Rust project owner and are looking for contributors, please submit tasks here.

Updates from Rust Core

73 pull requests were merged in the last two weeks.

New Contributors

  • Esteban Küber
  • marudor

Approved RFCs

Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week:

Final Comment Period

Every week the team announces the 'final comment period' for RFCs and key PRs which are reaching a decision. Express your opinions now. This week's FCPs are:

New RFCs

Upcoming Events

  • 6/22. Rust Community Team Meeting at #rust-community on irc.mozilla.org.
  • 6/23. Rust release triage at #rust-triage on irc.mozilla.org.
  • 6/29. Rust Community Team Meeting at #rust-community on irc.mozilla.org.
  • 6/30. Zurich, Switzerland - Introduction to Rust.

If you are running a Rust event please add it to the calendar to get it mentioned here. Email Erick Tryzelaar or Brian Anderson for access.

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Quote of the Week

The Rust standard libs aren't quite batteries included, but they come with a pile of adaptor cables and an optional chemistry lab.

Gankro on Twitter

Thanks to llogiq for the suggestion.

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