Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo
Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo
Posted Feb 12, 2021 13:52 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)In reply to: Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo by plugwash
Parent article: Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo
> Some of this through the officially endorsed "feature gates" mechanism, others through a certain flag that is not supposed to be used by user code but is anyway that lets you use "nightly" features on a stable compiler.
Feature gates can only be opened on a nightly compiler. The stable compiler does not let you use them (unless you masquerade as the stdlib with some internal flags, but then you're in a "you get to keep both pieces" situation anyways).
What you're probably actually seeing is the crates using the newer language/stdlib features of *stable* rust releases.
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