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Serious question: Can you really call it stable if it is updated every 6 weeks?

• GolDDranks 2y ago
  Equally serious answer: yes, if it doesn't break backwards compatibilty between the updates. This is what the Rust project means by stable. You can update and your code will continue building. (There's a bunch of documented caveats though.) Rust has been stable in this sense since 1.0, almost ten years. Of course, you might have different semantics for "stable". Some seem to mean "rarely updating" or "each update is small" by that. In the latter sense, too, Rust has becoming stabler over the last few years. In the "rarely updating" sense, Rust is not going to change course. Frequent, time-based releases have demonstrably made the progress smoother, and in a sense, "stabler", as in, more predictable and bug-free.