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 a pull request. Want to get involved? We love contributions.

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Crate of the Week

No crate was suggested for this week. So I unilaterally declare ring, Brian Smith's Rust crypto implementation, which is finally on crates.io as this week's crate.

Can we have suggestions and votes next week? Pretty please?

Submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

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.

138 pull requests were merged in the last two weeks.

New Contributors

changchun.fan

Daniele Baracchi

Mohit Agarwal

Paul Fanelli

Shyam Sundar B

zjhmale

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

No new RFCs were proposed this week.

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Quote of the Week

My Rust memoirs will be called "Once in 'a lifetime".

— @Argorak on Twitter.

Thanks to Vincent Esche for the suggestion.

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This Week in Rust is edited by: nasa42, llogiq, and brson.