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Updates from Rust Community

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Project/Tooling Updates

Observations/Thoughts

Rust Walkthroughs

Research

Miscellaneous

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is scraper, a crate for HTML parsing and querying with CSS selectors.

Thanks to Carlo Federico Vescovo for the self-suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Call for Participation

Always wanted to contribute to open-source projects but didn't know where to start? Every week we highlight some tasks from the Rust community for you to pick and get started!

No calls for participation this week. Keep an eye out for more places to contribute next week!

If you are a Rust project owner and are looking for contributors, please submit tasks here.

Updates from the Rust Project

344 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A light week with few performance changes, apart from one PR that added some necessary extra work to rustdoc and so we observed a corresponding hit to some doc benchmarks.

Triage done by @pnkfelix. Revision range: 8a746f4a..b38a6d37

Summary:

(instructions:u) mean range count
Regressions ❌
(primary)		 2.8% [0.2%, 18.4%] 14
Regressions ❌
(secondary)		 1.3% [0.2%, 2.6%] 24
Improvements ✅
(primary)		 - - 0
Improvements ✅
(secondary)		 -0.7% [-1.1%, -0.3%] 10
All ❌✅ (primary) 2.8% [0.2%, 18.4%] 14

3 Regressions, 2 Improvements, 1 Mixed; 1 of them in rollups 44 artifact 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

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.

Tracking Issues & PRs

New and Updated RFCs

  • No New or Updated RFCs were created this week.

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.

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Quote of the Week

Rust does best when we're ambitious

– Niko Matsakis quoted by Yoshua Wuyts on his blog

llogiq is inordinately pleased with his suggestion and thanks Yoshua for clearing the quote!

Please submit quotes and vote for next week!

This Week in Rust is edited by: nellshamrell, llogiq, cdmistman, ericseppanen, extrawurst, andrewpollack, U007D, kolharsam, joelmarcey, mariannegoldin, bennyvasquez.

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