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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From the Blogosphere

capgun.  A simple utility that watches files and fires a specified command when they do. 

pirate.  A command-line arrrrguments parser, written in Rust. 

rust-worldgen.  Noise and World Generation library for Rust. 

plex.  A parser and lexer generator as a Rust syntax extension. 

What's cooking on nightly? 

107 pull requests were merged in the last week. 

New Contributors

Adam Heins

Alex Newman

Christian Persson

Eljay

Kagami Sascha Rosylight

Approved RFCs

Every week the teams announce a 'final comment period' for RFCs which are reaching a decision.  Express your opinions now.  This week's RFCs entering FCP are:

New RFCs

Upcoming Events

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Quote of the Week

"Greek constitution to be rewritten in #rustlang to deal with their ownership and borrowing problem." —  @bigthingist

Submit your quotes for next week!.