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Rust 1.6 Released (rust-lang.org)
An anonymous reader writes: The Rust team has announced the release of version 1.6 of their programming language. The biggest new feature is that libcore — the Rust core library — is now stable. "Rust's standard library is two-tiered: there's a small core library, libcore, and the full standard library, libstd, that builds on top of it. libcore is completely platform agnostic, and requires only a handful of external symbols to be defined. Rust's libstd builds on top of libcore, adding support for memory allocation, I/O, and concurrency. Applications using Rust in the embedded space, as well as those writing operating systems, often eschew libstd, using only libcore." Other features worth noting: Crates.io disallows wildcards for dependencies, there are a ton of stabilized APIs, timer functions that use milliseconds have been deprecated, and the parser will warn you if a failure was caused by Unicode characters that look similar but are interpreted differently.
They have to introduce a new version every now and then because they run out of people to recommend Rust to. A new version allows them to recommend it to themselves in times of scarcity.
The Rust team has announced a new language, called Frick. This new language will build upon the lessons learned from Rust and provide the ability for developers to leverage security, the Cloud, and the IoT. Your knowledge of Rust is now obsolete and support for Rust has been dropped.