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 a pull request. Want to get involved? We love contributions.

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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is noisy_float, a crate with surprisingly useful floating point types that would rather panic than be Not a Number. Thanks to Ayose Cazorla for the suggestion.

Submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

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.

145 pull requests were merged in the last week

New Contributors

Alan Du

Alexandre Martin

Alex Butler

Boris-Chengbiao Zhou

Dileep Bapat

dragan.mladjenovic

Eric Huss

snf

Yukio Siraichi

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

Upcoming Events

The community team is trying to improve outreach to meetup organisers. Please fill out their call for contact info if you are running or used to run a meetup.

If you are running a Rust event please add it to the calendar to get it mentioned here. Email the Rust Community Team for access.

Rust Jobs

No jobs listed for this week.

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Quote of the Week

Imagine going back in time and telling the reporter “this bug will get fixed 16 years from now, and the code will be written in a systems programming language that doesn’t exist yet”.

— Nicholas Nethercote.

Thanks to jleedev!

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