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From the Blogosphere

Tips & Tricks

In the News

rust-timsort. Rust implementation of the modified MergeSort used in Python and Java.

trust. Rust automated test runner.

mongo-rust-driver. Mongo Rust driver built on top of the Mongo C driver.

rust-ffi-omnibus. A collection of examples of using code written in Rust from other languages.

hyper is now at v0.6. An HTTP/S library for Rust.

rust-throw. A new experimental rust error handling library, meant to assist and build on existing error handling systems.

burrito. A monadic IO interface in Rust.

mimty. Fast, safe, self-contained MIME Type Identification for C and Rust.

What's cooking on master?

95 pull requests were merged in the last week.

Breaking Changes

Now you can follow breaking changes as they happen!

Other Changes

New Contributors

Andy Grover

Brody Holden

Christian Persson

Cruz Julian Bishop

Dirkjan Ochtman

Gulshan Singh

Jake Hickey

Makoto Kato

Yongqian Li

Every week the teams announce a 'final comment period' for RFCs which are reaching a decision. Express your opinions now. This week's RFCs entering FCP are:

New RFCs

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