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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is paste, a self-hosted pastebin made of a lot of Rust and a little Ruby. Thanks to Kyle Clemens for both crate and suggestion!

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Call for Participation

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Updates from Rust Core

172 pull requests were merged in the last week

Approved RFCs

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

No RFCs were approved this week.

Final Comment Period

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Quote of the Week

References are not pointers, but temporary locks on data

Kornel on rust-users.

Thanks to Squirrel for the suggestion!

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