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: Vikrant and llogiq.

News & Blog Posts

токамак. Rust IDE package for Atom.

fancy-regex. A pure-Rust hybrid regular expression implementation.

RustPrimer. Rust primer for beginners (in Chinese). English translations underway.

Screech. Implementation of the Noise Protocol Framework in Rust.

Rusty Secrets. Rust implementation of threshold Shamir secret sharing.

Rustler. Safe Rust bridge for creating Erlang NIF functions.

Crate of the Week

This week's Crate of the Week is gcc, a crate to easily use the local C compiler, which makes FFI with a build script a breeze. Thanks to Ulrik Sverdrup 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.

89 pull requests were merged in the last week.

Notable changes

New Contributors

Timon Van Overveldt

Tom Tromey

Varun Vats

vlastachu

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

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Quote of the Week

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