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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is dxf-rs, a library to parse AutoCAD files.

Thanks to cosj for the suggestion!

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Call for Participation

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Updates from the Rust Project

368 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A mixed week. I suppose it is best to focus on the fact we made some big improvements to a large number of primary benchmarks, at the cost of some smaller regressions to a smaller number of primary benchmarks.

Triage done by @pnkfelix. Revision range: bb55bd44..edab34ab

Summary:

mean max count
Regressions 😿
(primary)		 0.6% 1.6% 35
Regressions 😿
(secondary)		 2.1% 8.1% 23
Improvements 🎉
(primary)		 -0.8% -3.5% 72
Improvements 🎉
(secondary)		 -0.8% -2.9% 62
All 😿🎉 (primary) -0.4% -3.5% 107

4 Regressions, 3 Improvements, 5 Mixed; 4 of them in rollups 47 artifact comparisons made in total

Full report here.

Call for Testing

An important step for RFC implementation is for people to experiment with the implementation and give feedback, especially before stabilization. The following RFCs would benefit from user testing before moving forward:

  • No RFCs issued a call for testing this week.

If you are a feature implementer and would like your RFC to appear on the above list, add the new call-for-testing label to your RFC along with a comment providing testing instructions and/or guidance on which aspect(s) of the feature need testing.

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 entered Final Comment Period this week.

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Quote of the Week

Because lower-level software has more operational constraints than higher-level software (e.g. it typically cannot tolerate a runtime or memory management via garbage collection), developing a memory safe language suitable for systems software is particularly challenging. The Rust language has met that challenge, however, and is an excellent candidate for replacing C in many systems applications.

We plan to invest in the tools that allow systems engineers to move their software to Rust. This means investing in improving package management, compilers, and Foreign Function Interface (FFI) generators. In many cases this will include providing interfaces compatible with existing widely-used components to enable transition. With these tools, adoption of a memory safe alternative will scale much faster without replication of efforts.

– The White House Open Source Software Mobilization Plan, multiple authors (PDF link)

Thanks to Brian Kung for the suggestion.

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