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: Vikrant and llogiq.

News & Blog Posts

125 pull requests were merged in the last week.

See the triage digest and subteam reports for more details.

Notable changes

New Contributors

Adam Perry

Carlos E. Garcia

Daniel Robertson

Felix Gruber

Johan Lorenzo

Kenneth Koski

Masood Malekghassemi

Richard Bradfield

Scott Whittaker

Thomas Winwood

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

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fn work(on: RustProject) -> Money

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GSoc Project

Hi students! Looking for an awesome summer project in Rust? Look no further! Chris Holcombe from Canonical is an experienced GSoC mentor and has a project to implement CephX protocol decoding. Check it out here.

Crate of the Week

This week's Crate of the Week is rayon, which gives us par_iter() / par_iter_mut() functions that use an internal thread pool to easily parallelize data-parallel operations. There's also rayon::join(|| .., || ..) for Fork-Join-style tasks. Apart from the ease of use, it also performs very well, comparable to hand-optimized code.

Thanks to LilianMoraru for the suggestion.

Submit your suggestions for next week!