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Rust 1.26 released

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Re: Rust 1.26 released

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Post by GolDDranks »

There's so much long-awaited features that are finally stabilised.

impl Trait is HUGE. And there's tons of other stuff too. This must be the biggest single release since 1.0.

Re: Rust 1.26 released

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Post by zer »

steveklabnik wrote: post #2

So, so, so much stuff in this release! The next few are shaping up to be similar. Very exciting times! As always, happy to answer questions, provide context, etc.

impl Trait and the second edition of the book; very nice! Congrats on the release!

Question: Is there any way to preview what the book's typesetting looks like, since there's praise in the release note?

Re: Rust 1.26 released

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Post by dikaiosune »

I recently found myself inserting &/*/ref/ref mut into match expressions before I'd even seen a compiler error. My first thought was "aha, look at how experienced I am with Rust now!" Followed immediately by "I can't wait until this isn't something you have to learn to be productive with the language." And now that day has come! Really exciting for me.

I also need to go and find all of my impl Trait TODO comments and get to work on cleaning those up! What a good day.

I should also say that while I haven't read the second edition of the book yet I am excited to have some new Rust-related content to read. The first edition of the book was a really eye-opening learning experience for me (both about computers and Rust and also about how to build a community and prioritize teaching) and I can only imagine what an improvement on that is like.

Re: Rust 1.26 released

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Post by steveklabnik »

zer wrote: post #4
steveklabnik wrote: post #2

So, so, so much stuff in this release! The next few are shaping up to be similar. Very exciting times! As always, happy to answer questions, provide context, etc.

impl Trait and the second edition of the book; very nice! Congrats on the release! Question: Is there any way to preview what the book's typesetting looks like, since there's praise in the release note?

I am not sure to be honest, I think NoStarch has a preview chapter on the page for the book, which would show it off.

Re: Rust 1.26 released

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Post by kibwen »

So yeah, 1.26 is the most substantial release since 1.0, but there's lots more goodies coming in the pipeline. :) It just so happened that all the initiatives from last year are preparing to land at approximately the same time. For example, coming up next in 1.27 is stable SIMD: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/49664 (though only for x86/x86_64 at first; more platforms and high-level crossplatform APIs are on the way).

Re: Rust 1.26 released

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Post by sushisource »

Super excited to see how much better my code will look with impl Trait and the "no need for &/ref in pattern matches" stuff.

Keep it up Rust team. The language is incredible! Really my only daily complaint is IDE support is still abysmally slow, in both IntelliJ and VSCode.

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