Re:Rust is mostly safety
by kebolio on Thursday December 29, 2016 @10:06AM
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Over the last year of intermittently dossing around with Rust I encountered the need to use nightly regularly, with various crates refusing to compile (and usually I stopped my experimentation there as my barrier to entry was anything harder than pacman -S rust cargo). Yet I did not know until just now that Serde is moving off a dependency on nightly and it is encouraging that this is a trend with similar libraries; I stand corrected.
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Serve creator here. The core library 'serde' never actually required nightly. It was just the helper library 'serde_derive' which can automatically implement the serde traits that needed nightly. dtolnay has been doing a wonderful job getting us off nightly. We can't wait to finally get rid of using it.
Re:Rust is mostly safety
by steveklabnik on Thursday December 29, 2016 @10:17AM
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If you happen to remember which libraries those were, I'd be interested in hearing about them!
> my barrier to entry was anything harder than pacman -S rust cargo
Today, that also wouldn't be the case: "rustup update nightly" and "rustup run nightly cargo build" or whatever, with extra stuff to automatically switch per directory.