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 threadIO, a crate that makes disk IO in a background thread easy and elegant.

Thanks to David Andersen 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!

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Updates from Rust Core

384 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

No triage report this 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:

Final Comment Period

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Quote of the Week

The main theme of Rust is not systems programming, speed, or memory safety - it's moving runtime problems to compile time. Everything else is incidental. This is an invaluable quality of any language, and is something Rust greatly excels at.

/u/OS6aDohpegavod4 on /r/rust

Thanks to Chris for the suggestion.

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

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