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

termpix. Draw images in an ANSI terminal.

tarpc. An RPC framework for Rust with a focus on ease of use.

Rust + Haskell experiments in software rasterization, N-Body simulation and Game of Life.

rust-wlc. Rust bindings for wlc, the Wayland compositor library.

Afterparty. A library for building Github webhook integrations in Rust.

Hubcaps. A Rust interface for GitHub.

107 pull requests were merged in the last week.

Notable changes

New Contributors

Chad Shaffer

Gökhan Karabulut

Jack O'Connor

rphmeier

Vlad Ureche

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

Upcoming Events

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fn work(on: RustProject) -> Money

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GSoc Project

Hi students! Looking for an awesome summer project in Rust? Look no further! Chris Holcombe from Canonical is an experienced GSoC mentor and has a project to implement CephX protocol decoding. Check it out here.

Crate of the Week

This week's Crate of the Week is Diesel, a rustic typesafe extensible object-relational mapper and query builder. Just go to their site; the examples speak for themselves.

Thanks to LilianMoraru and DroidLogician for the suggestion.

Submit your suggestions for next week!

Quote of the Week

There is essentially no webpage out there that it cannot get through at multiple hundreds of frames-per-second

— pcwalton on Servo's astonishing new WebRender technology.

Thanks to adwhit for the suggestion.

Submit your quotes for next week!