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We're working on that! Expect more news around it in the coming months.

Note that this is just a first draft of the ferrocene spec, we aim to get it to a finished state by the end of the year!

The crates.io index is hosted on GitHub, but the application/API is hosted on Heroku (so in the us-east-1 AWS region) and the downloads on S3/CloudFront. And yes crates.io is curre…

It's this research that prompted GitHub to show warnings, they didn't appear as of yesterday.

Mozilla has had to reduce its investment in Rust significantly, but it’s not abandoning Rust. Mozilla has committed to financial and logistical support while we get the foundation …

This is still a open question! We made no decision on the name yet.

That flag shouldn't be documented: it's completly unsupported and meant to be used only by the compiler. Please don't rely on it :)

> to be able to block merging PRs on changes that accidentally impact LLVM's performance, like is currently the case for rustc. rustc's CI doesn't prevent merging PRs that impact p…

Yeah, that's why I'd prefer for the Rust Foundation to be as lean as possible, explicitly excluding raising donations for the whole project and paying developers from its scope. Fu…

There are people inside Mozilla paid to work on the project full time. Not all of them are on the core team though.

Well with RHEL 8 you can get a pretty up to date rustc, as they update the version in their stable repos every three months (so every two releases): https://developers.redhat.com/b…

Rust doesn't have LTS releases. Editions are both a way to market the new features introduced in the past years as a "bundle" to outside users, and a way for us to introduce some b…