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What features do you rely on? This is effectively the opposite of my experience, which is why I am curious: even our embedded OS at work is almost free of night
by steveklabnik 2y ago
What features do you rely on? This is effectively the opposite of my experience, which is why I am curious: even our embedded OS at work is almost free of nightly features, and everything higher in the stack has been on stable for a long time. Always interested in learning how experiences differ!
- anonfordays 2y ago>is almost free of nightly features So it's not free of said features and you have to use nightly? >What features do you rely on? Several of these highlighted here:https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/19/2023-Rust-Annual-Survey-2023-results.html https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/19/2023-Rust-Annual-Surve... Something like 30% of users were on nightly a few years ago. Not sure if that's still true, but it is for me.
- steveklabnik 2y agoYes, for that OS we’re using asm_const, which is almost stable, naked functions, and used_with_arg, which is linker related. We also use array_methods but that could be polyfilled, if the other three were stable.
- pornel 2y agocrates.io sees about 13% of requests from nightly compilers, although that may be biased by CI tests that just check for future compatibility rather than needing nightly features. https://lib.rs/stats#rustc-usage https://lib.rs/stats#rustc-usage For application development nightly hasn't been necessary for many years now. Places where people use nightly are increasingly just nice to haves and small optimizations.