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

Notable New Crates & Projects

Diesel. A safe, extensible ORM and Query Builder for Rust.

Chomp. Fast parser combinator library for Rust.

libkeccak-tiny. A tiny implementation of SHA-3, SHAKE, Keccak, and sha3sum in Rust.

Waitout. Simple interface for tracking and awaiting the completion of multiple asynchounous tasks.

69 pull requests were merged in the last week.

See the triage digest and subteam reports for more details.

Notable changes

New Contributors

androm3da

ebadf

Ivan Stankovic

Jack Fransham

Jeffrey Seyfried

Josh Austin

Kevin Yeh

Matthias Bussonnier

Philipp Matthias Schäfer

xd1le

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

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Crate of the Week

This week's Crate of the Week is Chrono, a crate that offers very handy timezone-aware Duration and Date / Time types.

Thanks to Ygg01 for the suggestion. Submit your suggestions for next week!