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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is float8, an 8-bit float implementation.

llogiq is still pleased with his choice, but increasingly unhappy about the lack of suggestions.

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Calls 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:

RFCs

  • No calls for testing were issued this week.

Rust

  • No calls for testing were issued this week.

Rustup

  • No calls for testing were issued 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.

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 or through a PR to TWiR or by reaching out on X (formerly Twitter) or Mastodon!

CFP - Events

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 website through a PR to TWiR or by reaching out on X (formerly Twitter) or Mastodon!

Updates from the Rust Project

437 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

One regression dominated this week (dealing with a correctness fix around type system caching that was deemed necessary), but it luckily did not produce large regressions in any benchmarks. Overall, performance still ended up relatively in the same place as the beginning of the week.

Triage done by @rylev. Revision range: c87004a1..e6c46db4

Summary:

(instructions:u) mean range count
Regressions ❌
(primary)		 0.3% [0.1%, 1.0%] 63
Regressions ❌
(secondary)		 1.1% [0.1%, 3.4%] 81
Improvements ✅
(primary)		 -0.5% [-3.0%, -0.1%] 19
Improvements ✅
(secondary)		 -0.5% [-1.5%, -0.1%] 46
All ❌✅ (primary) 0.1% [-3.0%, 1.0%] 82

2 Regressions, 3 Improvements, 7 Mixed; 3 of them in rollups 57 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:

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

Rust
Cargo
Language Team
Language Reference
  • No Language Reference RFCs entered Final Comment Period this week.
Unsafe Code Guidelines
  • No Unsafe Code Guideline Tracking Issues or PRs entered Final Comment Period this week.

New and Updated RFCs

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Jobs

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Quote of the Week

I'm the wrong side of 45. I have zero interest in wasting any time that I might have left writing C from scratch. Writing Rust is pure joy. I can go from an idea to a working, tested, robust, published and packaged implementation in the time it would take me to even begin the first few lines of a C version. The tooling is beautiful, makes programming fun, and the end result usually outperforms the equivalent C. Once it builds I know it will run perfectly on all of the platforms I care about, and I don't have to go around manually testing on them to find all of the various platform and compiler quirks that will break it.

– Jonathan Perkins on the NetBSD mailing list

Thanks to blonk for the suggestion!

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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