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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is rustix, a crate with safe bindings to POSIX-ish syscalls.

Thanks to Kornel for the suggestion!

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Updates from the Rust Project

266 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

Improvements generally outweighed regressions with most regressions coming in the form of correctness fixes (where performance regressions are generally less of a concern). The biggest win was arguably a change to the Sip128 hasher implementation which seemed to have decent performance implications for many real world crates.

Triage done by @rylev. Revision range: 2b681ac..72e74d7

3 Regressions, 7 Improvements, 2 Mixed; 4 of them in rollups 28 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.

Final Comment Period

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RFCs

  • No RFCs entered Final Comment Period this week.

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Quote of the Week

Language stability is not just about semver compatibility. It's also about not burdening developers to have to make new decisions when looking at old code. [Language instability] creates churn and debate about things that previously didn't require it.

skysch on rust-internals

Thanks to Christopher Durham for the suggestion!

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