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, brson, and llogiq.

News & Blog Posts

Robigalia. A Rust userland and POSIX layer built on seL4.

Flac. An implementation of FLAC, free lossless audio codec, written in Rust.

Imageproc. An image processing library, in Rust.

Heroku Buildpack for Rust.

YouCompleteMe now supports Rust. YouCompleteMe is a fast, fuzzy, as-you-type code-completion engine built originally for Vim.

61 pull requests were merged in the last week.

See the triage digest and subteam reports for more details.

Notable changes

New Contributors

Anders Granlund

BChip

jonastepe

Lawrence Woodman

Matt Kraai

Michael F. Lamb

Mike Anderson

Nathan

Zach Panzarino

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 crossbeam. This is a library of non-blocking data structures and synchronization primitives that makes writing concurrent programs easier and more efficient (both in terms of code and runtime).

Thanks to DroidLogician for the suggestion.

Submit your suggestions for next week!

Quote of the Week

Rustaceans are not very imaginative at naming things. We try! and try!, but sometimes, we Err.

— steveklabnik1 on /r/rust.

Thanks to msiemens for the suggestion.

Submit your quotes for next week!