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Anyone knows when the compiler plugins will be stable?

• steveklabnik 11y ago
  We don't have a timeframe yet, but the internal refactorings we're working on will help with this, and is one of the reasons we're doing it.
• Manishearth 11y ago
  Still a while to go. We've got some ideas, but nothing concrete yet, and it's hard to do in a backwards compatible form. And even if it stabilizes, there's no guarantee that things like clippy will be able to use it since clippy relies on a _lot_ of internals. If you want to use a plugin like clippy, I'd suggest you make it an optional dependency (see the README) and do `cargo build --features=clippy` on nightly on your CI.
• mook 11y ago
  Related, at what point will "use a stable build, not a nightly" be a good practice for libraries? Actually, do people mainly use nightlies or releases for development? (Of libraries and apps, not the toolchain itself, obviously.)
  • Manishearth 11y ago
    It already is a good practice. Most people seem to use stable. I work on tools so I prefer nightlies (but I use multirust so it's easy to switch). And Servo (which I also work on) uses its own snapshots.