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 a pull request. Want to get involved? We love contributions.

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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is pikkr, a JSON parser that can extract values without tokenization and is blazingly fast using AVX2 instructions, Thank you, bstrie for the suggestion!

Submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

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.

99 pull requests were merged in the last week

New Contributors

bgermann

Douglas Campos

Ethan Dagner

Jacob Kiesel

John Colanduoni

Lance Roy

Mark

MarkMcCaskey

Max Comstock

toidiu

Zaki Manian

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

Style RFCs

Style RFCs are part of the process for deciding on style guidelines for the Rust community and defaults for Rustfmt. The process is similar to the RFC process, but we try to reach rough consensus on issues (including a final comment period) before progressing to PRs. Just like the RFC process, all users are welcome to comment and submit RFCs. If you want to help decide what Rust code should look like, come get involved!

The RFC style is now the default style in Rustfmt - try it out and let us know what you think!

We're currently writing up the discussions, we'd love some help. Check out the tracking issue for details.

PRs:

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Rust Jobs

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Quote of the Week

When programmers are saying that there are a lot of bicycles in code that means that it contains reimplementations of freely available libraries instead of using them Presumably the metric for this would be bicyclomatic complexity?

— /u/tomwhoiscontrary on reddit.

Thanks to Matt Ickstadt for the suggestion.

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