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

Summer of Code Projects

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

Servo is also accepting GSoC project submissions under the Mozilla banner. See if any of the project ideas appeal to you and read the advice for applications.

Servo also has a project in Rails Girls Summer of Code. nom is also participating.

Crate of the Week

This week's Crate of the Week is LALRPOP, a LR(1) parser generator that compiles to Rust code. Thanks to ogeon for the suggestion!

Submit your suggestions 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.

142 pull requests were merged in the last week.

Notable changes

New Contributors

Andrew Cantino

Andrey Cherkashin

Craig M. Brandenburg

Noah

Tang Chenglong

Tim Montague

vagrant

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

Upcoming Events

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Quote of the Week

Rust is not what makes these projects awesome. These projects are what make Rust awesome.

— Manish on twitter.

Thanks to llogiq for the suggestion.

Submit your quotes for next week!