Radar · Rust · Archive · Week 11 · Mar 9 – 15, 2026

This Week in Rust 642

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What changed: The newsletter highlighted the crate sentencex, a fast sentence segmentation library, and several tooling releases such as uutils/coreutils 0.7.0 and mdterm 1.0.0.
Production impact: The source does not say.
Try it: Add sentencex to a Cargo project and experiment with its API.
Source: this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/03/11/this-week-in-rust-642/

Understand it, then run it

The newsletter this week announced the crate sentencex, a fast sentence segmentation library. It also listed several tooling releases such as uutils/coreutils 0.7.0 and mdterm 1.0.0. These are community‑maintained projects that help you build command‑line tools and view Markdown in a terminal. No language feature or standard library change was introduced this week.

Run it now

Todayrust

// This program demonstrates the announcement of the `sentencex` crate.
// The crate is not part of the standard library, so we simply print a message.
fn main() {
    println!("sentencex crate highlighted in This Week in Rust 642");
}

What it printed when we ran it on Rust 1.98.1 (edition 2024)

sentencex crate highlighted in This Week in Rust 642

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