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Updates from Rust Community

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Project/Tooling Updates

Observations/Thoughts

Rust Walkthroughs

Miscellaneous

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is sycamore, a crate for making web applications using WebAssembly..

Thanks to Luke Chu for the self-suggestion.

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Module of the Week

Launching this week is Rust Module of the Week with std::fs Part 1. Contribution and feedback welcome here.

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

324 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

Quiet week for performance, with no large changes. Regressions are limited to just a few benchmarks.

Triage done by @simulacrum. Revision range: 998cfe5..3354a44

2 Regressions, 0 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

No RFCs are currently in the final comment period.

Tracking Issues & PRs

New RFCs

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Quote of the Week

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

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