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issue 566 — 25 SEP 2024

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Updates from Rust Community

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Project/Tooling Updates

Observations/Thoughts

Rust Walkthroughs

Miscellaneous

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is perpetual, a self-generalizing gradient boosting implementation.

Thanks to Mutlu Simsek for the self-suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Calls for Testing

An important step for RFC implementation is for people to experiment with the implementation and give feedback, especially before stabilization. The following RFCs would benefit from user testing before moving forward:

RFCs

  • No calls for testing were issued this week.

Rust

  • No calls for testing were issued this week.

Rustup

  • No calls for testing were issued this week.

If you are a feature implementer and would like your RFC to appear on the above list, add the new call-for-testing label to your RFC along with a comment providing testing instructions and/or guidance on which aspect(s) of the feature need testing.

Call for Participation; projects and speakers

CFP - Projects

Always wanted to contribute to open-source projects but did not 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 or through a PR to TWiR or by reaching out on X (formerly Twitter) or Mastodon!

CFP - Events

Are you a new or experienced speaker looking for a place to share something cool? This section highlights events that are being planned and are accepting submissions to join their event as a speaker.

If you are an event organizer hoping to expand the reach of your event, please submit a link to the website through a PR to TWiR or by reaching out on X (formerly Twitter) or Mastodon!

Updates from the Rust Project

400 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

Not too much happened this week. Most regressions of note were readily justified as removing sources of unpredictable/inconsistent behavior from code-generation. There was one notable improvement, from PR #130561: avoiding redoing a redundant normalization of the param-env ended up improving compile times for 93 primary benchmarks by -1.0% on average.

Triage done by @pnkfelix. Revision range: 170d6cb8..749f80ab Revision range: 506f22b4..4cadeda9

(there are two revision ranges to manually work around a rustc-perf website issue.)

2 Regressions, 2 Improvements, 7 Mixed; 4 of them in rollups 62 artifact comparisons made in total

Full report here

Approved RFCs

Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week:

Final Comment Period

Every week, the team announces the 'final comment period' for RFCs and key PRs which are reaching a decision. Express your opinions now.

RFCs

Tracking Issues & PRs

Rust
Cargo
  • No Cargo Tracking Issues or PRs entered Final Comment Period this week.
Language Team
Language Reference
  • No Language Reference RFCs entered Final Comment Period this week.
Unsafe Code Guidelines
  • No Unsafe Code Guideline Tracking Issues or PRs entered Final Comment Period this week.

New and Updated RFCs

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Jobs

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Quote of the Week

New users feel like iteration times are so slow and it takes forever to get going with Rust. But if there's a library available, I feel like I'm roughly as productive with Rust as I am with Ruby, if not more, when I think about the whole amount of work I'm doing. I haven't really figured out how to talk about that without sounding purely like a zealot, but yeah, I feel like Rust is actually very, very productive, even though many people don't see it that way initially.

Steve Klabnik at Oxidize Conference

Thanks to Brian Kung for the suggestion!

Please submit quotes and vote for next week!

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