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The 2018 was widely considered to be overly pressured (contrary to the usual Rust approach of shipping it when it’s ready), which led to burnt out compiler devs
by nicoburns 5y ago
The 2018 was widely considered to be overly pressured (contrary to the usual Rust approach of shipping it when it’s ready), which led to burnt out compiler devs, and a bunch of people with unmet expectations. I think the approach to decouple Big Bang features from editions has been made in response to that.
- mjw1007 5y agoIt's hard to tell how much of the trouble with 2018 was due to the concept of having a major release with several things being updated together, and how much was due to the mistake of setting too early a deadline (by pre-announcing that it would be "Rust 2018" rather than "Rust 2019").
- kzrdude 5y ago2021 was explicitly a "nothing new" edition, at least.