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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is pubgrub, a Rust implementation of the state of the art version solving algorithm.

Thanks to Louis Pilfold for the suggestion!

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Call for Participation

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jsonschema-rs

Updates from the Rust Project

266 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A fairly busy week, with a relatively high percentage of PRs landing with regressions and improvements. The overall trajectory is fairly neutral for this week though.

Triage done by @simulacrum. Revision range: 83f147b..25ec82

5 Regressions, 5 Improvements, 5 Mixed; 1 of them in rollups

43 comparisons made in total

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:

No RFCs were approved this week.

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Quote of the Week

There's a common trope among people unfamiliar with rust where they assume that if you use unsafe at all, then it's just as unsafe as C and rust provided no benefit. Comparing C's approach to safety vs Rust's is like comparing an open world assumption to a closed world assumption in formal logic systems. In C, you publish your api if it's possible to use correctly (open world). In Rust, you publish a safe api if it's im possible to use in correctly (closed world). Rust's key innovation here is that it enables you to build a 'bridge' from open world (unsafe) to a closed world (safe), a seemingly impossible feat that feels like somehow pairwise reducing an uncountable infinity with a countable infinity. Rust's decision to design an analogous closed-world assumption for safe code is extremely powerful, but it seems very hard for old school C programmers to wrap their head around it.

– /u/infogulch on /r/rust

Thanks to Alice Ryhl for the suggestion!

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

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