Add 1.14 release blog post. #141
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| This was a inconsistency, and so with RFC 1492 stabilized, compiles fine as of |
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| ### What's in 1.14.0 stable | ||
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| One of the biggest features in Rust 1.14 isn't actually in Rust 1.14: the |
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Possible change: "One of the biggest features in Rust 1.14 isn't actually in the language itself:"?
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| As for Cargo, [RFC 1721] has been implemented. The motivation for this feature | ||
| is that Cargo can now compile objects for statically linking against the msvcrt | ||
| on the MSVC platform. But, meachnically speaking, this means that Cargo will |
| [wasm]: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/compiling-to-the-web-with-rust-and-emscripten/7627 | ||
| [emscripten]: http://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/getting_started/downloads.html | ||
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| The community has been doing intertesting, experimental work in this area: see |
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| ### What's in 1.14.0 stable | ||
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| One of the biggest features in Rust 1.14 isn't actually in Rust 1.14: the |
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perhaps "isn't in the compiler"?
| * [`println!()`, with no arguments, prints newline][36825]. | ||
| Previously, an empty string was required to achieve the same. | ||
| * [`Wrapping` impls standard binary and unary operators, as well as | ||
| the `Sum` and `Product` iterators][37356] |
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actually the operator impls were already there, this just adds them for references
| * [Expand `.zip()` specialization to `.map()` and `.cloned()`][37230] | ||
| * [Implement `RefUnwindSafe` for atomic types][37178] | ||
| * [Specialize `Vec::extend` to `Vec::extend_from_slice`][37094] | ||
| * [Don't reuse `HashMap` random seeds][37470] |
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maybe mention why? (mitigates one type of HashDoS attack)
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| As for Cargo, [RFC 1721] has been implemented. The motivation for this feature | ||
| is that Cargo can now compile objects for statically linking against the msvcrt | ||
| on the MSVC platform. But, meachnically speaking, this means that Cargo will |
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| We had [a previous post about Rustup][prev] back in May. You can learn more | ||
| about it there, or by checking it out [on | ||
| GitHub](https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustup.rs) |
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Lacking a period at the end (possibly due to the inline link also containing one)
| ### What's in 1.14.0 stable | ||
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| One of the biggest features in Rust 1.14 isn't actually in Rust 1.14: the | ||
| [rustup tool has reached a 1.0 release][rustup], and is now the recomended way |
| Another exciting feature is [experimental support for WebAssembly][wasm] as a | ||
| target, `wasm32-unknown-emscripten`. It is still early days, and there's a lot | ||
| of bugs to shake out, so please give it a try and report them! To give you a | ||
| small taste of how it works, one you have [emscripten] installed, compiling |
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| The landing of MIR over the last few releases means that a [number of | ||
| improvements to compile times] have landed, with more coming in the future. | ||
| Exact numbers are hard, as they depend on what code you're compiling, but |
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The "exact numbers are hard" seems disingenuous; we have a benchmark suite. If we don't have good overall numbers to report, I'd just drop this sentence.
| #### Library stabilizations | ||
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| There have been a number of additions to the standard library, but they don't | ||
| fit into particularly nice categories for this release. Here's the highlights: |
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It'd be great to provide a sentence description of each of the listed changes.
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| #### Cargo features | ||
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| As for Cargo, [RFC 1721] has been implemented. The motivation for this feature |
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You say "the motivation for this feature" without actually saying what the feature is.
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I was considering "RFC 1721" as the feature, and then explaining the details after, but maybe that's too convoluted. Any suggestions?
| [Rust Belt Rust]: http://www.rust-belt-rust.com/sessions/ | ||
| [todomvc]: http://timryan.org/rust-todomvc/ | ||
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| Speaking of platforms, a large number of platforms have gained additional |
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If we're talking about experimental support for new platforms, how about mentioning xargo?
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I thought I had my spellcheck on, sorry about that everyone. Should have everything done except @aturon 's two comments about sentences for library changes, as well as the slight weirdness of phrasing. I might knock those out in the morning. |
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I pushed some minor typo fixes. |
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Okay, this should be good to go 👍 |
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