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Updates from Rust Community

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Project/Tooling Updates

Research Papers

Observations/Thoughts

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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is roogle, a type-based Rust API search engine inspired by Haskell's Hoogle.

Thanks to Hirochika Matsumoto for the suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Call for Participation

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Updates from the Rust Project

316 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

The only significant regressions were 1. two PRs that slowed down doc generation, and 2. some slowdown from the new lints to flag occurrences of Unicode bidirectional control characters. The doc generation regression is being investigated.

Triage done by @pnkfelix. Revision range: 3c8f00..6384dc

6 Regressions, 3 Improvements, 1 Mixed; 4 of them in rollups 39 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:

Final Comment Period

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Quote of the Week

I always tell myself that code quickly written just to compile looks like Order 66 executed on Christmas day

[...]

Clones and unwrapping as far as the eye can see.

Dhghomon on /r/rust

Thanks to UtherII for the suggestion!

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

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