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

This week's crate is rustbreak, a crate providing simple single-file storage to e.g. persist settings. Thank you, Dieter Konrad 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.

157 pull requests were merged in the last week

New Contributors

Basile Desloges

Bob Sun

James Tucker

Lucas Morales

Marcus Buffett

P.Y. Laligand

Romain Porte

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

No new RFCs were proposed this week.

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Rust Jobs

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Quote of the Week

A Box always holds exactly one thing, like a single large struct. A Vec holds zero to many things of exactly one type and can change over time. If you had to relate them, a Box is a Vec with one element that went to Neverland and forgot it could ever grow.

— /u/zzyzzyxx on reddit.

Thanks to /u/l-arkham for the suggestion.

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