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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is terminal-colorsaurus, a small library to detect whether the terminal is in light or dark mode.

Thanks to Tau for the self-suggestion!

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

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!

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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

375 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A quiet week with not much going on. A small regression was caused by a bugfix related to traits, but it was somewhat offset by a cargo update that brought a small perf. win.

Triage done by @kobzol. Revision range: 93722f7e..0f1e965f

Summary:

(instructions:u) mean range count
Regressions ❌
(primary)		 0.4% [0.1%, 1.1%] 20
Regressions ❌
(secondary)		 0.4% [0.1%, 2.5%] 19
Improvements ✅
(primary)		 -0.4% [-1.6%, -0.2%] 8
Improvements ✅
(secondary)		 -1.3% [-1.7%, -0.2%] 13
All ❌✅ (primary) 0.1% [-1.6%, 1.1%] 28

0 Regressions, 2 Improvements, 4 Mixed; 4 of them in rollups 51 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

Tracking Issues & PRs

Rust
Cargo
Language Team
  • No Language Team Proposals entered Final Comment Period this week.
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

  • No New or Updated RFCs were created this week.

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Quote of the Week

Also, there is often a trade-off between accuracy and education. For example, when I correct my toddler that the Sun is actually not moving, but we are rotating. That's wrong, the Sun is moving, but arguably less wrong than his impression. (I once tried to give him the full explanation, but halfway through he ran away to play with his trains.)

Not that readers of the Rust book are toddlers, but the principle generalizes in my experience.

– Andrew Gallant a.k.a. @BurntSushi on rust-users

Thanks to Aleksander Krauze for the suggestion!

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