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Re:Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator w... by Paul-ish on Friday January 06, 2017 @02:06PM (#13339189)
It seems like the Cargo.toml file for binaries should be able to specify this, and cause the crate to be built with the nightly if it is installed. This way you only have to enter cargo build --release.
Re:Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator w... by steveklabnik on Friday January 06, 2017 @02:12PM (#13339244)
Cargo isn't in charge of selecting what rustc you use; that's the job of Rustup.

In general, _some_ feature like this is desired; nobody has put in the required work yet.