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This week's edition was edited by: nasa42, brson, and llogiq.

News & Blog Posts

rusty-machine. Machine Learning library for Rust.

Shiplift. Rust interface for maneuvering docker containers.

Hyperlocal. Hyper bindings for local unix domain sockets.

63 pull requests were merged in the last week.

Notable changes

New Contributors

Aaron Keen

Chris Buchholz

Christoffer Buchholz

Daniel Collin

defyrlt

Denis Kolodin

est31

James Mantooth

Luke Jones

Natha

Approved RFCs

Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week:

No RFCs were approved 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 rustfmt, because it's nice to Rust with style.

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Quote of the Week

I think the "standard library" is really (forgive me) a brand.

jimb on rust-internals

Thanks to llogiq for the belated suggestion.

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