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: Brian Anderson, Vikrant Chaudhary

From the Blogosphere

stdx. Curated collection of well-regarded Rust crates.

ipc-channel. A multiprocess drop-in replacement for Rust channels.

rocket. A toy game in Rust, using Piston.

forkjoin. A work stealing fork-join parallelism library for Rust.

capsize. Conversions between units of capacity.

porthole. A tiny rust crate for resolving the next available network port.

What's cooking on nightly?

122 pull requests were merged in the last week.

New Contributors

Alex HotShot Newman

Christian Weinz

Esption

Georg Brandl

Jesús Espino

jethrogb

Approved RFCs

Every week the teams announce a '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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Quote of the Week

I think if someone placed the Rust and Go community in a room and asked them to fight, we'd probably just all order pizza and geek out over languages. — Manish Goregaokar

Thanks to msiemens for the tip. Submit your quotes for next week!.