Episode Details

Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.54 and 1.55 releases of Rust.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

[@00:37] - Rust 1.54

• [@00:55] - Attributes can invoke function-like macros
  • The doc attribute
• [@04:04] - wasm32 intrinsics stabilized
  • std::intrinsics
  • Target families
• [@06:59] - Incremental compilation is re-enabled by default
  • Rust 1.52.1 disables incremental compilation
  • Incremental compilation issues tracking issue
• [@08:55] - Stabilized APIs
• [@11:00] - Changelog deep-div
  • [@11:04] - cargo report and future incompatibility lints
  • [@14:12] - LLVM mutable noalias is on again
  • [@16:24] - CARGO_TARGET_TMPDIR
  • [@17:24] - Use semver 1.0
    • Checking semver 1.0 against crates.io

[@19:18] - Rust 1.55

• [@19:26] - Cargo deduplicates compiler errors
• [@20:24] - Faster, more correct float parsing
  • The PR
  • Reddit post with details
• [@22:20] - io::ErrorKind