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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is fltk-rs, a crate with bindings to the FLTK GUI toolkit.

Thanks to Mark Summerfield for the suggestion!

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Call for Participation

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Updates from the Rust Project

230 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

It was a relatively calm, but good week overall. Most of the gains were improvements to rustdoc running times.

Triage done by @pnkfelix. Revision range: e91ad5..2b681a

1 Regressions, 6 Improvements, 1 Mixed; 0 of them in rollups 38 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

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 new RFCs entered Final Comment Period this week.

Tracking Issues & PRs

New RFCs

  • No new RFCs were published this week.

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Quote of the Week

I performed an extremely scientific poll on twitter, and determined this is not how it's pronounced


Well, it really is Vec<T, A>, pronounced Veck-tah. 😛


Look, I moved away from Boston to avoid this sort of thing 😄.

the8472 & Thom Chiovoloni on github

Thanks to Josh Triplett for the suggestion!

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