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 thermite, a SIMD struct-of-arrays-algorithms library.

Thanks to Willi Kappler 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

300 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

  • 2020-12-15: 6 Regressions, 1 Improvements, 2 Mixed

This week was fairly quite with lots of small regressions. Most of the regressions were either for fixes to changes that yielded large performance wins in previous weeks or small performance losses where there is already a plan for how to gain those losses back.

Triage done by @rylev.

See the full report for more.

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

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

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Quote of the Week

Engineering is not about "not doing mistakes". Engineering is about designing systems that ensure fewer mistakes occur.

Rust is such a system.

amos on his blog

Thanks to Joshua Nelson for the suggestion.

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This Week in Rust is edited by: nellshamrell, llogiq, and cdmistman.

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