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Re:Rust vs. Go by serge2k on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @08:00PM (#13432035)
> most of them will work on stable in just a couple of weeks!

Until they don't again because clearly the authors have no interest in being on a stable compiler release.

> Plus you can easily switch between versions with rustup!

I don't think people are complaining because switching versions is hard. Just unnecessary, risky, and yes kind of annoying.

Re:Rust vs. Go by AsyncAwait on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @08:42PM (#13432241)
> Until they don't again because clearly the authors have no interest in being on a stable

This is false, most uses of nightly are because of macros, which will be stable in the next version of Rust.

Re:Rust vs. Go by lomnakkus on Thursday January 19, 2017 @04:00AM (#13434232)
> Until they don't again because clearly the authors have no interest in being on a stable compiler release.

Then use an older version of the package. Unless the package in question was relying on some "nightly" feature that never made it into stable, then you should be fine.