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The Rust Reference
12 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 0 stories, 12 comments · first 2018-05-15 · latest 2025-08-20
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…a best-effort technical reference, despite attempts to increase its authoritativeness into a spec https://github.com/rust-lang/reference/issues/629 My opinion is that the spec is actually more needed for people inside the language than for…
comment by hitekker · 2025-08-20 · in Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software -
…To which I say, git appears to disagree. If you look at the contributor graph for the reference ( https://github.com/rust-lang/reference/graphs/contributors ) you’ll find 327 contributions in 2024 H2 and 322 contributions in 2025 H1.…
comment by testdelacc1 · 2025-08-17 · in Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software -
…there is no progress being made on the spec. The activity on this repo suggests the opposite - https://github.com/rust-lang/reference
comment by testdelacc1 · 2025-08-16 · in Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software -
…surprise you to learn that they’re making steady progress, even merging in two PRs two hours ago? https://github.com/rust-lang/reference
comment by testdelacc1 · 2025-08-16 · in Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software -
…curious, did you Google before writing this comment? I did just now and the first result I found is https://github.com/rust-lang/reference . This is something the Rust project is taking very seriously. You can read up on their approach in…
comment by testdelacc1 · 2025-08-16 · in Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software -
…you could have a custom build script that calls out to an external assembler, I suppose. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/reference/pull/1689 [2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/134213
comment by jchw · 2025-03-08 · in Rust inadequate for text compression codecs? -
…you even that much. >> Regarding argument evaluation order, technically it is not yet documented https://github.com/rust-lang/reference/issues/248 but has been left-to-right for basically forever https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-expre…
comment by josalhor · 2020-09-19 · in Why Rust is not a mature programming language -
…Regarding argument evaluation order, technically it is not yet documented https://github.com/rust-lang/reference/issues/248 but has been left-to-right for basically forever https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-expression-order-of-
comment by steveklabnik · 2020-09-19 · in Why Rust is not a mature programming language -
The bug is https://github.com/rust-lang/reference/issues/487 I'm not quite sure how it got to be that way, as the policy is that reference documentation is supposed to be written (if not actually in place) by the time a feature is…
comment by mjw1007 · 2020-04-11 · in How often does Rust change? -
…interested in more info the docs [1] and the New Rustacean 1.31 Part 2 podcast [2] are helpful. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/reference/blob/master/s... [2] https://newrustacean.com/show_notes/news/rust_1_31/part_2/in...
comment by KevinEldon · 2019-02-28 · in Announcing Rust 1.33.0 -
…section on assignment expressions should note that assignment expressions evaluate to (). Fixes at https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/reference/pull/337 . The Notations page links to a section on tokens. The Characters and strings table…
comment by kibwen · 2018-05-16 · in Rust turns three -
Sure. Please file bugs about stuff like this: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/reference/issues/new That section of the reference is basically inherited from the very old days. Most of the work has been focused on the other parts.…
comment by steveklabnik · 2018-05-15 · in Rust turns three