Hello and welcome to another multi-week 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

Crate of the Week

This week's Crate of the Week is owning_ref, which contains a reference type that can carry its owner with it. Thanks to 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.

186 pull requests were merged in the last two weeks.

Notable changes

New Contributors

Alec S

Andrey Tonkih

c4rlo

David Hewitt

David Tolnay

Deepak Kannan

Gigih Aji Ibrahim

jocki84

Jonathan Turner

Kaiyin Zhong

Lukas Kalbertodt

Lukas Pustina

Maxim Samburskiy

Raph Levien

rkjnsn

Sander Maijers

Szabolcs Berecz

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

Cow is still criminally underused in a lot of code bases I suggest we make a new slogan to remedy this: "To err is human, to moo bovine." (I may or may not have shamelessly stolen this from this bug report)

so_you_like_donuts on reddit.

Thanks to killercup for the suggestion.

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