This Week in Rust 649
This Week in Rust 649 highlights recent developments in the Rust programming language and its community, including project updates, tooling releases, and upcoming events. The newsletter features new versions of tools like Zed, Niri, and cargo-cooldown, as well as community contributions and learning resources. Readers are encouraged to participate through contributions, testing, and event speaking opportunities.
- ▪Zed, a code editor, has reached version 1.0.
- ▪New releases include Niri v26.04, cargo-cooldown 0.3.0, and pyscan v2.1.0.
- ▪Rust India Conference 2026 and EuroRust 2026 are upcoming events with talk recordings and call for participation.
- ▪480 pull requests were merged in the Rust project last week, including compiler and library improvements.
- ▪The crate of the week is dithr, a dithering and halftoning library.
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