Rust 1.23.0 Released, Community Urged To Blog Ideas For 2018 Roadmap (rust-lang.org)

An anonymous reader quotes the official Rust blog: The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.23.0... New year, new Rust! For our first improvement today, we now avoid some unnecessary copies in certain situations. We've seen memory usage of using rustc to drop 5-10% with this change; it may be different with your programs... The documentation team has been on a long journey to move rustdoc to use CommonMark. Previously, rustdoc never guaranteed which markdown rendering engine it used, but we're finally committing to CommonMark. As part of this release, we render the documentation with our previous renderer, Hoedown, but also render it with a CommonMark compliant renderer, and warn if there are any differences.
A few new APIs were also stabilized in this release -- see the complete release notes here -- and you no longer need to import the trait AsciiExt to provide ASCII-related functionality on u8, char, [u8], and str.

The Rust blog made another announcement earlier this week. "As open source software becomes more and more ubiquitous and popular, the Rust team is interested in exploring new and innovative ways to solicit community feedback and participation." So while defining Rust's roadmap for 2018, "we'd like to try something new in addition to the RFC process: a call for community blog posts for ideas of what the goals should be."

Comments

Re: Why so much animosity?

[Anonymous Coward]

I wish atleast there be one thread for pure technical discussions instead of devolving into name calling non sense every where on slashdot.

Re:Why so much animosity?

[Kjella]

I don't understand why there is so much animosity from slashdot community towards new languages, especially Rust. Is it to hard to learn, hence sour grapes? Or fear of job security? Come on people, be nice.

Just Rust in particular. Most of /. wants software development to be about the code and a meritocracy, not participation awards, social science experiments or bickering about whether master/slave is some kind of unhealthy dark age reference. Some of the threads that have been linked to have been like "This has to be a joke, right?" only they're not, it's people earnestly discussing it and expecting people to take it seriously. Not that bigotry or immature male humor or #metoo harassment doesn't exist, but if it starts looking like a social advocacy group first and a software development community second instead of some HR issue distracting from what you're really trying to do, well...