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News & Blog Posts

novemb.rs

novemb.rs, the distributed Rust hackfest, is happening this weekend. If you would like to participate, please refer to the website for a local meetup or for a chat to get in contact with other Rustceans. Note that if you want to attend a meetup, you should check on Friday for most up-to-date information.

Other Weeklies from Rust Community

Crate of the Week

No crate was selected for CotW.

Call for Participation

Always wanted to contribute to open-source projects but didn't 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.

152 pull requests were merged in the last week.

New Contributors

abhijeetbhagat

Angelo Polo

Arthur Silva

Havvy

Josh Driver

Juan Gomez

karpinski

meh

Nicolas B. Pierron

oldmanmike

Trotter Cashion

Approved RFCs

Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation 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

Style RFCs

Style RFCs are part of the process for deciding on style guidelines for the Rust community and defaults for Rustfmt. The process is similar to the RFC process, but we try to reach rough consensus on issues (including a final comment period) before progressing to PRs. Just like the RFC process, all users are welcome to comment and submit RFCs. If you want to help decide what Rust code should look like, come get involved!

PRs:

Ready for PR:

Final comment period:

Other notable issues:

Upcoming Events

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Quote of the Week

Now higher-kinded types especially are one of those PL topics that sound forebodingly complex and kind of abstract (like monads). But once you learn what it is, you realize it’s actually relevant to your life (unlike monads).

— @nikomatsakis invoking the M word in his blog post.

Thanks to Japaric for the suggestion.

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This Week in Rust is edited by: nasa42, llogiq, and brson.