Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
by Animats on Friday June 03, 2022 @01:55PM
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This has been discussed on the Rust forums. There are too many widely used packages that are stuck at version 0.x, with no stability guarantee. The basic HTTP library, "hyper", is at 0.14.19, and it's had breaking changes more than once. 48,300,708 downloads.
* "image": 0.24.2 (Read and write common image formats, 7,257,076 downloads)
Rust needs a push to get everything with more than a million downloads up to version 1.x. Then the semantic versioning rules are supposed to require no breaking changes for existing code without changing the major version number.
* "image": 0.24.2 (Read and write common image formats, 7,257,076 downloads)
* "glam": 0.20.5 (Basic 2,3,4D vector and matrix operations, 1,155,849 downloads)
* "cached": 0.34.0 (Cache management, 1,367,883 downloads).
Rust needs a push to get everything with more than a million downloads up to version 1.x. Then the semantic versioning rules are supposed to require no breaking changes for existing code without changing the major version number.