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Updates from Rust Community

Foundation

Project/Tooling Updates

Observations/Thoughts

Rust Walkthroughs

Research

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is apistos, an OpenAPI documentation tool.

Thanks to Romain Lebran for the self-suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Call for Participation; projects and speakers

CFP - Projects

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

Some of these tasks may also have mentors available, visit the task page for more information.

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

CFP - Speakers

Are you a new or experienced speaker looking for a place to share something cool? This section highlights events that are being planned and are accepting submissions to join their event as a speaker.

If you are an event organizer hoping to expand the reach of your event, please submit a link to the submission website through a PR to TWiR.

Updates from the Rust Project

453 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

This week saw a bunch of regressions caused by correctness fixes and in general doing more work in the compiler. These were offset by many improvements (especially around hashing in the compiler) that improved performance by ~2% across a large number of benchmarks. Don't get too excited about the large 45+% wins though, these were only for tiny benchmarks like helloworld. They were caused by a change in Cargo which introduces stripping of debug symbols from Rust release binaries by default, and in turn also improves compilation time for small crates.

Triage done by @kobzol. Revision range: f9c2421a..d6b151fc

Summary:

(instructions:u) mean range count
Regressions ❌
(primary)		 0.7% [0.2%, 1.5%] 11
Regressions ❌
(secondary)		 2.2% [0.2%, 9.9%] 26
Improvements ✅
(primary)		 -3.2% [-47.5%, -0.2%] 191
Improvements ✅
(secondary)		 -7.9% [-46.5%, -0.1%] 123
All ❌✅ (primary) -3.0% [-47.5%, 1.5%] 202

4 Regressions, 4 Improvements, 9 Mixed; 4 of them in rollups 48 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

Language Reference

  • No Language Reference RFCs entered Final Comment Period this week.

Unsafe Code Guidelines

  • No Unsafe Code Guideline RFCs entered Final Comment Period this week.

New and Updated RFCs

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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If you are running a Rust event please add it to the calendar to get it mentioned here. Please remember to add a link to the event too. Email the Rust Community Team for access.

Jobs

Please see the latest Who's Hiring thread on r/rust

Quote of the Week

The functional ML roots of the language, Graydon's first Rust compiler was written in OCaml, shine through, influencing it right from the start.

It's not "C++ but better".

It's Haskell standing on Lisp's shoulders, hiding in C's coat to sneak into PRDCTN. (The fancy nightclub where all the popular languages hang out)

– tris on his "No Boilerplate" Youtube channel

Thanks to PrototypeNM1 for the suggestion!

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

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