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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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is cxx, a library to build a C++ FFI safely by taking care of both sides.

Thanks to Ehsan M. Kermani for the suggestions!

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Call for Participation

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Updates from Rust Core

311 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:

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Final Comment Period

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Quote of the Week

@ZiCog: Does anyone have a 'no holds barred, unsafe or not' solution to the problem in Rust that can match C?

@kornel: Pipe the C version through c2rust :slight_smile:

@ZiCog: Yay! Rust now beats both Clang and GCC!

ZiCog and Kornel on rust-users

Thanks to Jan Riemer for the suggestion!

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

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