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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Updates from Rust Community

No newsletters or research articles this week.

Official

Project/Tooling Updates

Observations/Thoughts

Rust Walkthroughs

Miscellaneous

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is serde-encrypt, a library that adds encryption to all Serialize impls.

Thanks to Sho Nakatani for the nomination.

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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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If you are a Rust project owner and are looking for contributors, please submit tasks here.

Updates from Rust Core

301 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A few small regressions on smaller benchmarks (e.g., helloworld), likely centered around more IR being generated in a few cases.

Triage done by @simulacrum. Revision range: d192c80..3912083

2 Regressions, 1 Improvements, 0 Mixed; 1 of them in rollups

Full report here.

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.

RFCs

Tracking Issues & PRs

New RFCs

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Quote of the Week

At last, I can name my unsafe functions appropriately.

unsafe fn e͙̤͎̪͒x̲͓̞̤͍̻̺̂͗͛͆͡t̜̣͊̓ͩ̍̑e̩͖͙͎̼̖͉ͮṇ̨͖̎̓ͅd̗̼͕ͫ̅_̲̦̥̙̙͍͂́l͙͙̦̞̠̃͌͒i̹̘͍̳̊ͪͦͤ͒̊͋f̨ͥ̄̌ḛ̜͗̉̃̎̂̔̐t̩̲̘͕͉̺̫̓͗́i̹̤̭ͭ͆̔ͪͤ͢m̹̤̜̗̫̩͍ͨe̝͒ͣ<'b>(r: R<'b>) -> R<'static>

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Thanks to Vincent de Phily for the suggestion!

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