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  1. As far as try goes, see https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/243#issuecomment-1720... . It's reached final comment period so probably will happen soonish?
    comment by Manishearth · 2016-01-16 · in A brief introduction to C++'s model for type- and resource-safety [pdf]
  2. Here's a summary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10713301 Here are the two RFCs: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1191-hir.... https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1211-mir.... And thanks! I'm hoping…
    comment by steveklabnik · 2016-01-12 · in Two Weeks of Rust
  3. …https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2h26cj/functions_retu... https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/105 https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1305 Reading those RFCs can be frustrating, where a discussion goes on for o
    comment by pjungwir · 2016-01-12 · in Two Weeks of Rust
  4. Redefining well-known terms gives nothing except confusion. And https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/243 is another step in this direction (beside "?" idea). If usual errors handling will be called "exceptions", then we will have full…
    comment by EugeneOZ · 2016-01-12 · in Two Weeks of Rust
  5. …good support for custom GCs for pure Rust code, but it's definitely being thought about. [0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1398 [1]: http://blog.pnkfx.org/blog/2015/11/10/gc-and-rust-part-1-spe... [2]:…
    comment by bjz_ · 2016-01-12 · in Two Weeks of Rust
  6. The "return function as result" is being worked on: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1305
    comment by heinrich5991 · 2016-01-12 · in Two Weeks of Rust
  7. …on why the Rust people nevertheless decided against checked arithmetic? The current RFC seems to be https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0560-inte... which seems to avoid taking a stand on the performance issue.
    comment by zurn · 2016-01-03 · in Google, HP, Oracle Join RISC-V – Open-source processor core gains traction
  8. …they don't feel comfortable with the performance penalty of default integer overflow checks: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/146
    comment by modeless · 2016-01-03 · in Google, HP, Oracle Join RISC-V – Open-source processor core gains traction
  9. …Rust being a panacea: here are the areas of the language which are currently a bit under-specified https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1122-lang... Surprise: Rust is not a panacea :) There is, however, a lot of work being…
    comment by steveklabnik · 2015-12-21 · in Boringcc: Proposal for a C compiler for secure software
  10. Yes, on the RFC: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/243#issuecomment-1633...
    comment by dbaupp · 2015-12-10 · in Rust 1.5
  11. No problem. To be more specific, https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/243#issuecomment-1633... and https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/243#issuecomment-1633... TL;DR: we're still adjusting process a bit, but the idea is that this is…
    comment by steveklabnik · 2015-12-10 · in Rust 1.5
  12. …Member of said moderation team (and partially behind its design) We have due process. See https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1068-rust... Yes, the code of conduct is a bit subjective. That is why there is an entire…
    comment by Manishearth · 2015-11-29 · in Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
  13. …nor any oversight of significance. The oversight for the moderation team is documented here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1068-rust... > It's also quite common to see any comment here (and at certain other discussion…
    comment by pcwalton · 2015-11-28 · in Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
  14. Rust automatically chooses the "best" strategy based on how you're building the source, per https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1183-swap... If you're building a dynamic or static library, we use the system allocator because…
    comment by Gankro · 2015-11-17 · in Writing an OS in Rust: Allocating Frames
  15. …the ability to catch exceptions exists, people like me are going to write exceptional code. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1236#issuecomment-127... [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1236#issuecomment-128... > > the…
    comment by quotemstr · 2015-11-11 · in Which language has the brightest future for replacing C: D, Go, Rust?
  16. …and see that the majority of them revolve around various ways of deliberately handicapping the API: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1236 It even inspired a followup RFC for the purpose of codifying these restrictions in a brand-new…
    comment by kibwen · 2015-11-11 · in Which language has the brightest future for replacing C: D, Go, Rust?
  17. …for the same reasons as this presentation, basically. It looks like SIL is closer to MIR. HIR: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1191-hir.... MIR: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1211-mir....
    comment by steveklabnik · 2015-11-01 · in Swift Intermediate Language: LLVM conference slides [pdf]
  18. …case is still too verbose. That said, the reason it wasn't included in the original elision RFC ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/141 ) is that the design space here is a little bit more subtle than some of the cases that did make…
    comment by wycats · 2015-11-01 · in Rust Lifetimes
  19. It makes it easier to have assurances about the behaviour of the program, even in error cases, https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/560#issuecomment-6999...
    comment by dbaupp · 2015-10-25 · in “gcc will quietly break nearly half of all the packages that it compiles”
  20. …mode, and that the result needs to be computed as per two's complement, i.e. not unspecified. [0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0560-inte...
    comment by dbaupp · 2015-10-25 · in “gcc will quietly break nearly half of all the packages that it compiles”
  21. …Here's an overview of how the compiler devs expect rustc to operate once this work is complete: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1211#issuecomment-128... and here's a comment expanding on this overview:…
    comment by kibwen · 2015-10-24 · in LLVM Code Generation in HHVM
  22. …only works on nightly. [0] an RFC was created then retracted[4] for discussions on internals[5] [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/129/files [2] http://rust-dev.1092773.n5.nabble.com/Rust-crypto-highlights... [3]…
    comment by masklinn · 2015-10-20 · in BoringSSL
  23. …analysis passes, as well as laying the groundwork for goodies like incremental compilation ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1298 ).
    comment by kibwen · 2015-10-04 · in Rust Faster
  24. The relevant search terms are "SEME regions" and "non-lexical borrows". The tracking issue is here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/811 and https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/6393 is the older issue it superseded, with…
    comment by steveklabnik · 2015-10-01 · in Trying Rust for web services
  25. You can't go evangelizing about compile times without even mentioning incremental recompilation. :P https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1298
    comment by kibwen · 2015-10-01 · in Trying Rust for web services
  26. …wants to get involved, this RFC was the one that got merged, but hasn't been made stable yet: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0809-box-... And this is the active, in-final-comment-period one which modifies it:…
    comment by steveklabnik · 2015-09-29 · in Redox: A Rust Operating System
  27. …to send over a channel). Some more detail can be found in the RFC[1] that implemented them. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0019-opt-...
    comment by bbatha · 2015-09-29 · in Resurrecting impl Trait
  28. I love Bitstring Syntax in Elixir and Erlang. Similar feature is coming for Rust[1]. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/346
    comment by namelezz · 2015-09-25 · in Elixir v1.1.0 Released
  29. …using a version of Rust that's pre-1.0.0. Progress is being made on making this first class though: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/604
    comment by timcameronryan · 2015-09-23 · in TodoMVC in Rust
  30. …called outside the protocol Traits that are being defined. Which lead to discussions like this one: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1236#issuecomment-136...
    comment by pjmlp · 2015-09-22 · in Exploitable vulnerabilities found in Kaspersky Anti-Virus
  31. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1183
    comment by Manishearth · 2015-09-22 · in Asynchronous IO in Rust
  32. "it" being --target? https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0131-targ... is the original RFC. Off the top of my head, I think that's it for now. Since cross compilation is getting easier in the future, I haven't invested a lot…
    comment by steveklabnik · 2015-09-20 · in Rust bare metal on ARM microcontroller
  33. …`let x = Box::new(make_inner())`, which may be a move of `make_inner()`) Placer is a part of this ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0809-box-... is the whole design). from_raw isn't, that's just a useful API for FFI. >…
    comment by Manishearth · 2015-09-19 · in Asynchronous IO in Rust
  34. …and so would require duplicating most of the API, however there may be some tricks that work. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/538 covers the allocator stuff.
    comment by dbaupp · 2015-09-18 · in Asynchronous IO in Rust
  35. We have a ticket open: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/388
    comment by steveklabnik · 2015-09-17 · in Asynchronous IO in Rust
  36. …abstract green and native threads into a single API, which lead to a lot of unnecessary overhead: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/0806be4f282144cfcd55b... Sadly, that proposal also removed concurrent IO from the standard library,…
    comment by acconsta · 2015-09-16 · in Asynchronous IO in Rust
  37. …(all the state is stored inline, no need to allocate a separate stack). Relevant issues: - https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/388 - https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/1081 I'm pretty sure this is quite non-trivial to implement…
    comment by dbaupp · 2015-09-11 · in Why Rust? [pdf]
  38. …quixotic decision. Most of the problems identified in the RFC stem from the unified API issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/0806be4f282144cfcd55b... I also understand Rust's implementation was backed by libuv, which, being…
    comment by acconsta · 2015-09-10 · in Why Rust? [pdf]
  39. …trying to mitigate this by adopting officially blessed libraries into the `rust-lang` organization: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1242-rust... --- This allows us to avoid the problems with a big standard library (too…
    comment by burntsushi · 2015-09-10 · in Why Rust? [pdf]
  40. …trying to mitigate this by adopting officially blessed libraries into the `rust-lang` organization: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1242-rust... --- This allows us to avoid the problems with a big standard library (too…
    comment by burntsushi · 2015-09-09 · in Why Rust? [pdf]
  41. …altering Rust's concurrency support in order to better support fork-join parallelism in the future: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0458-send... I'm also confused about your perception that the rhetoric gets ahead of the…
    comment by kibwen · 2015-09-09 · in Why Rust? [pdf]
  42. …contains the full proposal, as well as a motivations section that hopefully makes it more clear: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1210 TL;DR: specialization lets you also implement a more specific version of something that's generic.…
    comment by steveklabnik · 2015-08-14 · in Rust in 2016
  43. …on a design, such a feature can be easily implemented. I'd love to see an RFC on the topic ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs )!
    comment by aturon · 2015-08-14 · in Rust in 2016
  44. …and eventually did decide to make overflows panic -- but they are checked only in debug builds. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0560-inte...
    comment by CUViper · 2015-08-13 · in Android libstagefright still exploitable
  45. …syntax and idiom issues. We _will_ be adding some sort of thing kind of like inheritance to Rust. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/349 is the RFC issue, and it outlines: * cheap field access from internal methods; * cheap dynamic…
    comment by steveklabnik · 2015-08-10 · in Go and Rust – objects without class (2013)
  46. …so far. I think I've found a way, but it would depend on negative trait bounds, as discussed here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/1053 Ideally, I'd like to be able to do something like this: let a: Scalar<Joules> =…
    comment by jarrettc · 2015-08-08 · in Type-checked matrix operations in Rust
  47. …the trade-offs seem pretty tough and the path to an optimal solution is not at all obvious. [0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0560-inte... [1]: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/on-casts-and-checked-overf...
    comment by sanderjd · 2015-07-09 · in Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken (2006)
  48. It's a bit more subtle than that, see https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1122-lang...
    comment by steveklabnik · 2015-07-04 · in Things Rust shipped without
  49. They've been proposed: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/724 If you really need them, you can implement them in a library by declaring a suitably sized byte array and having methods that return casted pointers to it. This would be…
    comment by comex · 2015-07-04 · in Things Rust shipped without
  50. I would add Ropes: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/653 Given the frequency of manipulating large bodies of text in contemporary programming I do not agree it is best left to a library implementation. Without ropes as core std…
    comment by shawn-butler · 2015-07-03 · in Things Rust shipped without