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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is wild, a pretty fast linker written in Rust.

Thanks to Mateusz Mikuła for the (sort of 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.

If you are a feature implementer and would like your RFC to appear in this list, add a 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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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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No Calls for participation were submitted this week.

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Updates from the Rust Project

502 pull requests were merged in the last week

Compiler

Library

Cargo

Rustdoc

Rustfmt

Clippy

Rust-Analyzer

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A pretty quiet week, with minimal changes in performance (positive or negative).

Triage done by @simulacrum. Revision range: f5729cfe..daf59857

1 Regressions, 4 Improvements, 1 Mixed; 2 of them in rollups 29 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.

Tracking Issues & PRs

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Rust RFCs
Cargo

Other Areas

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New and Updated RFCs

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Jobs

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Quote of the Week

The performance impact of moving to Rust – and this is a common theme across everything done when we've moved from C/C++ to Rust – we saw a 5 to 15% performance Improvement.

I'll say that one of the ways that you could attack that kind of stat is say well you rewrote it so whenever you rewrite something you're going to improve it and if you'd rewritten it in C or C++ you would have also seen an improvement like that but the fact is we did not intend to get a performance Improvement. This was purely a porting exercise and we saw this now.

And the other aspect of this is that we never see performance regressions either when we're doing our ports [...]

– Mark Russinovich at RustNationUK '25'

Despite lacking suggestions, llogiq is quite pleased with his choice.

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

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