This post lays out the idea of preview crates.1 Preview crates would be special crates released by the rust-lang org. Like the standard library, preview crates would have access to compiler internals but would still be usable from stable Rust. They would be used in cases where we know we want to give users the ability to do X but we don’t yet know precisely how we want to expose it in the language or stdlib. In git terms, preview crates would let us stabilize the plumbing while retaining th...| smallcultfollowing.com
The Rust programming language feels like a first generation product. You know what I mean. Like the first iPhone - which was amazing by the way. They made an entire operating system around multitouch. A smart phone with no keyboard. And a working web browser. Within a few months, we| Seph