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Rust 1.3 is available

Version 1.3 of the Rust language has been released. The announcement listed API stabilization and increased performance work as the most notable changes. Specifically, there is a new substring-matching algorithm, a faster zero-filling method for initializing and resizing vectors, and speed-ups to the Read::read_to_end function. The release notes provide more detail. Also new in this release is the first edition of a new Rust programming guide, the Rustinomicon.


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Rust 1.3 is available

Posted Sep 18, 2015 17:51 UTC (Fri) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205) [Link]

This is great news. Congratulations and thanks to the Rust team!

Glad to see that the breaking changes in this release are fairly esoteric and unlikely to be hit by many libraries (it was common in the pre-1.0 days that each new change would break a supermajority of packages, forcing everyone to stop work and submit patches to their respective upstreams). Also great to see the Duration API stabilized. Durations are almost a textbook example of the benefit of Rust's type system in preventing bugs, and this API in particular was very useful for network code.


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