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I'm just a dabbler and most of my experience is a few months old -- I have no specifics for you, I'm afraid.

vvanders 8y ago
If you're talking about Rocket that seems to be the largest thing that requires nightly. That said I can count on my hands the number of times I've used nightly over the last 2-ish years. It's pretty rare that you need to do it. I'll also add that I've actually been really impressed with how much attention Rust takes to not break stable packages. Between crater[1] and how aggressively they've cut point releases to fix any issues that (rarely) happen to slip by. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/crater https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/crater
- inferiorhuman 8y ago
  Bindgen also wants nightly so if you're doing any FFI stuff you may be tethered to nightly.
  - vvanders 8y ago
    You sure about that? I've been using bindgen for ages on stable and just grabbed the latest version on an empty project and it still works for me.
    - steveklabnik 8y ago
      I'm sitting next to bindgen's author in meatspace right now and he says yes, it has been on stable for a long time.
      - inferiorhuman 8y ago
        Ah sorry, was thinking of rustfmt-nightly, not the toolchain.
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        steveklabnik 8y ago
        No worries! You shouldn't be using rustfmt-nightly at this point either; install the rustfmt-preview component through rustup. It works on stable!
        inferiorhuman 8y ago
        Does rustfmt-preview work with bindgen though?
        steveklabnik 8y ago
        I don’t know what this sentence means.
        inferiorhuman 8y ago
        Bindgen relies on rustfmt. With the codebase I'm using rustfmt-nightly works, but the stable version segfaults. Known issue but that's why I've stuck with rustfmt-nightly.
        steveklabnik 8y ago
        Interesting! I was not aware of that. So, no idea :)
        inferiorhuman 8y ago
        https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rust-bindgen/issues/1045 https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rust-bindgen/issues/104... So yeah looks like I'm tethered to the nightly toolchain after all. :/
        steveklabnik 8y ago
steveklabnik 8y ago
It's all good; I appreciate it anyway.

If you're talking about Rocket that seems to be the largest thing that requires nightly. That said I can count on my hands the number of times I've used nightly over the last 2-ish years. It's pretty rare that you need to do it. I'll also add that I've actually been really impressed with how much attention Rust takes to not break stable packages. Between crater[1] and how aggressively they've cut point releases to fix any issues that (rarely) happen to slip by. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/crater https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/crater

inferiorhuman 8y ago
Bindgen also wants nightly so if you're doing any FFI stuff you may be tethered to nightly.
- vvanders 8y ago
  You sure about that? I've been using bindgen for ages on stable and just grabbed the latest version on an empty project and it still works for me.
  - steveklabnik 8y ago
    I'm sitting next to bindgen's author in meatspace right now and he says yes, it has been on stable for a long time.
    - inferiorhuman 8y ago
      Ah sorry, was thinking of rustfmt-nightly, not the toolchain.
      - deleted 8y ago
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      - steveklabnik 8y ago
        No worries! You shouldn't be using rustfmt-nightly at this point either; install the rustfmt-preview component through rustup. It works on stable!
        inferiorhuman 8y ago
        Does rustfmt-preview work with bindgen though?
        steveklabnik 8y ago
        I don’t know what this sentence means.
        inferiorhuman 8y ago
        Bindgen relies on rustfmt. With the codebase I'm using rustfmt-nightly works, but the stable version segfaults. Known issue but that's why I've stuck with rustfmt-nightly.
        steveklabnik 8y ago
        Interesting! I was not aware of that. So, no idea :)
        inferiorhuman 8y ago
        https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rust-bindgen/issues/1045 https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rust-bindgen/issues/104... So yeah looks like I'm tethered to the nightly toolchain after all. :/
        steveklabnik 8y ago

steveklabnik 8y ago

It's all good; I appreciate it anyway.