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The biggest difference to the situation with python 2 vs 3 is that code written in stable rust also runs in unstable rust. A related thing: So far I have only
by legulere 10y ago
The biggest difference to the situation with python 2 vs 3 is that code written in stable rust also runs in unstable rust.
A related thing: So far I have only written code using stable rust. I see some people using nightly, but I've never seen someone talking about using beta. Are there numbers about beta downloads? Does beta still fulfill its task if barely anyone is using it?
- ekidd 10y agoBeta is almost exclusively used by Travis CI and other automatic builders, as far as I know. But a huge number of Rust projects are built against it on every commit.
- metajack 10y agoThere's some discussion of allowing beta for nightly Firefox builds. Since the Rust release cycle is slightly shorter than the Firefox one, this means Firefox release will always ship on stable Rust. Meanwhile, nightly can get bug fixes or features slightly ahead of the normal schedule.