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48.8% of Rust users use nightly, 23 percentage points among them use both stable and nightly, which means 25.8% of Rust users use only nightly. Is it just me o
by desdiv 10y ago
48.8% of Rust users use nightly, 23 percentage points among them use both stable and nightly, which means 25.8% of Rust users use only nightly.
Is it just me or does that seem exceedingly high? I'm guessing that a good deal of them are Rust language/core lib developers?
- progval 10y agoI personnally use nightly without being a core dev, because Rust is not available in Debian Stable so I just compile it from Git.
- dmit 10y agoAlso a factor is that there are very useful libraries that either can only be used in nightly, or are more ergonomic to use in nightly. Usually because they rely on compiler internals or unstable language features. This is mentioned as one of the points under "Challenges for Rust".
- cmrx64 10y agoI use nightly for osdev. No other option.