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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is banish, a proc macro to build rule-driven state machines using a declarative DSL.

Thanks to Logan Flaherty 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.

No calls for testing were issued this week by Rust, Cargo, Rustup or Rust language RFCs.

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

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.

No Calls for participation were submitted this week.

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CFP - Events

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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 Bluesky or Mastodon!

Updates from the Rust Project

564 pull requests were merged in the last week

Compiler

Library

Cargo

Rustdoc

Clippy

Rust-Analyzer

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

Several pull requests introduced (usually very small) regressions across the board this week. On the other hand, #151380 provided a nice performance win in the inference engine. I would also like to bring attention to #152375, which improved the parallel frontend. It is not shown in this report, because we don't yet have many benchmarks for the parallel frontend, but this PR seemingly improved the check (wall-time) performance with multiple frontend threads on several real-world crates by 5-10%!

Triage done by @kobzol. Revision range: 39219ceb..3c9faa0d

Summary:

(instructions:u) mean range count
Regressions ❌
(primary)		 0.7% [0.2%, 3.1%] 96
Regressions ❌
(secondary)		 1.1% [0.0%, 5.7%] 62
Improvements ✅
(primary)		 -0.4% [-0.9%, -0.2%] 8
Improvements ✅
(secondary)		 -2.6% [-7.0%, -0.0%] 45
All ❌✅ (primary) 0.6% [-0.9%, 3.1%] 104

2 Regressions, 0 Improvements, 9 Mixed; 4 of them in rollups 36 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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No Items entered Final Comment Period this week for Rust RFCs, Cargo, Language Team, Language Reference, or Unsafe Code Guidelines.

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Quote of the Week

Clearly there is such a thing as too much syntactic sugar (as one of my professors put it, "syntactic sugar causes semantic cancer"), but at the same time also clearly some syntactic sugar is worth having.

– Ralf Jung on rust-internals

Thanks to robofinch for the suggestion!

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