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I've been very interested in Rust for a while, but put off by the early development status and the fact that it's undergone a few major redesigns. I don't hold
by ObviousScience 12y ago
I've been very interested in Rust for a while, but put off by the early development status and the fact that it's undergone a few major redesigns. I don't hold them against the language team in any sense, and actually think more of them for it, since redesigns early are good if you realize something else might be better or one of your original ideas just didn't work out.
Rather, I'm just curious when I can expect Rust to settle down and not have frequent breaking changes, major redesigns of language features, etc. I've heard it's the aim of the 1.0 release to have this property (which is a reasonable goal in my mind).
Does anyone have a timeline on when it would be reasonable to start eyeing Rust if I want more stability (in terms of language features) than it's had during its development phase?
- steveklabnik 12y agoYou want to wait for 1.0. The plan is a release candidate around the end of the year.
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- robertfw 12y agoThere was a blog post recently discussing what is left before a 1.0 release, and the timeline for it. I'm in the same boat as you and the blog post has been helpful because now I can at least feel comfortable learning some basics, while avoiding the areas that are still in flux. http://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/09/15/Rust-1.0.html http://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/09/15/Rust-1.0.html