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: nasa42, brson, and llogiq.

News & Blog Posts

rusty-cheddar. A Rust plugin to automatically generate C-style header files.

Iomrascálaí. An AI for the game of Go/Weiqi/Baduk written in Rust.

78 pull requests were merged in the last week.

Notable changes

New Contributors

Brian Bowman

Daniel Campbell

Letheed

petevine

Tianyi Wang

Xmasreturns

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

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Crate of the Week

This week's Crate of the Week is Quick Error – a rust-macro which makes errors easy to write.

Thanks to killercup for the suggestion. Submit your suggestions for next week!

Quote of the Week

how do cats arbitrate access to a shared typesetting system? with a mew-TeX

— Nathaniel Theis on Twitter

Thanks to Paul for the tip.

Submit your quotes for next week!