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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is office2pdf, a standalone library or binary to generate PDF from OOXML (docx, xlsx, etc.) files.

Thanks to One for the 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.

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 Bluesky or Mastodon!

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

414 pull requests were merged in the last week

Compiler

Library

Cargo

Clippy

Rust-Analyzer

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A positive week with a few nice improvements coming from query system cleanups.

Triage done by @panstromek. Revision range: eeb94be7..ddd36bd5

Summary:

(instructions:u) mean range count
Regressions ❌
(primary)		 0.3% [0.3%, 0.3%] 1
Regressions ❌
(secondary)		 0.2% [0.0%, 0.3%] 3
Improvements ✅
(primary)		 -0.8% [-2.1%, -0.1%] 141
Improvements ✅
(secondary)		 -1.1% [-6.6%, -0.1%] 90
All ❌✅ (primary) -0.8% [-2.1%, 0.3%] 142

2 Regressions, 5 Improvements, 5 Mixed; 4 of them in rollups 30 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

Rust
Compiler Team (MCPs only)
Language Reference

No Items entered Final Comment Period this week for Rust RFCs, Cargo, Language Team, Leadership Council 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

  • No New or Updated RFCs were created this week.

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Quote of the Week

After all, Rust only became as good as it is by going through a rather drastic transformation. At one point it had a GC and Green Threads, famously. There's no substitute for making it exist and seeing how it does on a real problem.

– scottmcm on rust-users

Thanks to Jonas Fassbender for the suggestion!

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