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 a pull request. Want to get involved? We love contributions.

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Updates from Rust Community

News & Blog Posts

24 Days of Rust

24 days of Rust is a series of articles introducing Rust language features, useful libraries, and cool projects built with Rust. Last week's articles are:

Other Weeklies from Rust Community

Crate of the Week

This week's Crate of the Week is ruru, a wrapper around Ruby's C-API. Thanks to turboladen for the suggestion!

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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

86 pull requests were merged in the last week. This contains a good number of plugin-breaking changes.

New Contributors

  • Christophe Biocca
  • Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  • Jeremy Soller
  • Jon Gjengset
  • Kalita Alexey
  • Michael Zapata

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

Style RFCs

Style RFCs are part of the process for deciding on style guidelines for the Rust community and defaults for Rustfmt. The process is similar to the RFC process, but we try to reach rough consensus on issues (including a final comment period) before progressing to PRs. Just like the RFC process, all users are welcome to comment and submit RFCs. If you want to help decide what Rust code should look like, come get involved!

PRs:

Ready for PR:

There's a lot of them right now, contributions here would be very welcome. If you want advice or help getting started, please ping nrc, or any other member of the style team, in #rust-style.

Issues in final comment period:

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Quote of the Week

fmtq: I'm ridiculously good at the borrow checker though fmtq: in Rust. bstrie: once you've mastered borrow checkers, you may move on to borrow chess

— in #rust-offtopic.

Thanks to Havvy for the suggestion.

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This Week in Rust is edited by: nasa42, llogiq, and brson.