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: nasa42 and llogiq.

News & Blog Posts

Crate of the Week

This week's Crate of the Week is petgraph, which provides graph structures and algorithms. Thanks to /u/diwic for the suggestion!

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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.

110 pull requests were merged in the last two weeks.

New Contributors

Andrew Brinker

Chris Tomlinson

Hendrik Sollich

Horace Abenga

Jacob Clark

Jakob Demler

James Alan Preiss

James Lucas

Joachim Viide

Mark Côté

Mathieu De Coster

Michael Necio

Morten H. Solvang

Wojciech Nawrocki

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

Upcoming Events

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Quote of the Week

Isn’t rust too difficult to be widely adopted? I believe in people.

— Steve Klabnik on TRPLF

Thanks to Steven Allen for the suggestion.

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