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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News & Blog Posts

Crate of the Week

This week has a belated Crate of the Week with Vincent Esche's self-submitted cargo-modules, which gives us the cargo modules subcommand that shows the module structure of our crates in a tree view, optionally warning of orphans. Thanks, Vincent!

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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.

105 pull requests were merged in the last two weeks.

New Contributors

abhi

Aravind Gollakota

Ben Boeckel

Ben Stern

David

Dridi Boukelmoune

Isaac Andrade

Zhen Zhang

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

7/20. Rust Community Team Meeting at #rust-community on irc.mozilla.org.

7/21. Rust Hack & Learn Karlsruhe.

7/27. Rust Community Team Meeting at #rust-community on irc.mozilla.org.

If you are running a Rust event please add it to the calendar to get it mentioned here. Email Erick Tryzelaar or Brian Anderson for access.

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Quote of the Week

fzammetti: Am I the only one that finds highly ironic the naming of something that's supposed to be new and cutting-edge after a substance universally synonymous with old, dilapidated and broken down? paperelectron: Rust is as close to the bare metal as you can get.

On /r/programming.

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