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Updates from Rust Community

News & Blog Posts

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is fselect, a crate to find files by SQL-like queries. Thanks to Jhspetersson 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

127 pull requests were merged in the last week

New Contributors

  • Andreas Streichardt
  • Anthony Deschamps
  • boats
  • Bryan Drewery
  • csmoe
  • Dale Wijnand
  • Dan Aloni
  • Federico Poli
  • hedgehog1024
  • Hidehito Yabuuchi
  • Jakub Adam Wieczorek
  • Jimmy Brush
  • moe
  • Nathan Ringo
  • newpavlov
  • Vitali Lovich

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

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Rust Jobs

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Quote of the Week

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