Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a systems language pursuing the trifecta: safety, concurrency, and speed. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tweet us at @ThisWeekInRust or send us an email! Want to get involved? We love contributions.

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This week's edition was edited by: nasa42, brson, and llogiq.

News & Blog Posts

Neon: Node + Rust = 💖. Neon is a set of APIs and tools for making it super easy to write native Node modules in Rust.

[podcast] New Rustacean podcast episode 08. Generics, traits, and shared behavior in Rust.

clang-rs. An idiomatic Rust wrapper for libclang.

56 pull requests were merged in the last week.

Notable changes

New Contributors

Jeff Walden

Kai Noda

lnmx

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!

Every week the team announces the 'final comment period' for RFCs and key PRs which are reaching a decision. Express your opinions now. This week's FCPs are:

New RFCs

Upcoming Events

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Crate of the Week

This week's Crate of the Week is handlebars-rust, an implementation of the Handlebars templating language for Rust. It also allows custom helpers and template inheritance for real-world usage. Thanks to @sunng for the suggestion.

Submit your suggestions for next week!

Quote of the Week

You have to think about it. You don't have to worry about it.

— SamReidHughes on manual memory management in Rust.

Thanks to Barosl for the tip.

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