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Updates from Rust Community

Project/Tooling Updates

Observations/Thoughts

Rust Walkthroughs

Miscellaneous

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is web-route, a library to ergonomically define and manage web server routes in Rust.

Thanks to sidrubs 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.

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.

Let us know if you would like your feature to be tracked as a part of this list.

RFCs

Rust

Rustup

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.

No Calls for papers or presentations were submitted this week.

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

553 pull requests were merged in the last week

Compiler

Library

Cargo

Rustdoc

Clippy

Rust-Analyzer

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

Lot of regressions this week, mostly in rustdoc benchmarks from newly added features. The rest of the suite saw mostly small regressions in small benchmarks and also some improvements, notably from token tree parsing optimization in macro code, span optimization and ongoing work on new solver, which is not fully enabled, yet.

Triage done by @panstromek. Revision range: 239e8b1b..ee361e8f

Summary:

(instructions:u) mean range count
Regressions ❌
(primary)		 3.7% [0.3%, 34.5%] 42
Regressions ❌
(secondary)		 2.3% [0.0%, 53.3%] 79
Improvements ✅
(primary)		 -0.5% [-0.7%, -0.3%] 9
Improvements ✅
(secondary)		 -0.9% [-2.8%, -0.0%] 30
All ❌✅ (primary) 3.0% [-0.7%, 34.5%] 51

5 Regressions, 1 Improvement, 7 Mixed; 6 of them in rollups 38 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.

Tracking Issues & PRs

Rust

No Items entered Final Comment Period this week for Rust RFCs, Cargo, Language Team, Language Reference or Unsafe Code Guidelines.

Let us know if you would like your PRs, Tracking Issues or RFCs to be tracked as a part of this list.

New and Updated RFCs

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Jobs

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

Quote of the Week

I clone() everything now. The Borrow Checker permits this small rebellion, this inefficiency. It knows I suffer more knowing my code is not idiomatic. Every .clone() is a confession of my failure. Every Arc<Mutex> a monument to my inadequacy.

– /u/TheEldenLorrdd on /r/rust

Thanks to Colin Terry for the suggestion!

Please submit quotes and vote for next week!

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

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