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RFCs for changes to Rust

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  1. 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
  2. …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?
  3. …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?
  4. 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
  5. …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?
  6. …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?
  7. …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]
  8. …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
  9. 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”
  10. …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”
  11. …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
  12. …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
  13. …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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. …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
  17. …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
  18. 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
  19. …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
  20. …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
  21. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1183
    comment by Manishearth · 2015-09-22 · in Asynchronous IO in Rust
  22. "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
  23. …`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
  24. …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
  25. We have a ticket open: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/388
    comment by steveklabnik · 2015-09-17 · in Asynchronous IO in Rust
  26. …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
  27. …(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]
  28. …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]
  29. …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]
  30. …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]
  31. …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]
  32. …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
  33. …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
  34. …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
  35. …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)
  36. …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
  37. …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)
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. …that we were happy yet, as even the most advanced Rust library, mio, is still a work in progress. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/1081 As for async/await, https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/388
    comment by steveklabnik · 2015-07-03 · in Things Rust shipped without
  42. Higher kinded types https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/324
    comment by luibelgo · 2015-07-03 · in Things Rust shipped without
  43. …probably can support guaranteed TCO now, and have 'become' as a reserved keyword for this purpose. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/271 is a better link today.
    comment by steveklabnik · 2015-07-03 · in Things Rust shipped without
  44. Non-lexical lifetimes don't depend on reducibility. The RFC I wrote works fine for irreducible CFGs: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/396 It does have the effect of picking a single dominating entry point for a loop with multiple…
    comment by cwzwarich · 2015-07-03 · in Things Rust shipped without
  45. The feature in question (`if let`) was added pretty recently. The RFC even mentions Swift! ;-) https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0160-if-l...
    comment by burntsushi · 2015-06-26 · in Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp
  46. …(active or passive) of other users is a part of it, and that's something the mod team handles. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1068-rust... [2]: http://www.rust-lang.org/conduct.html
    comment by Manishearth · 2015-06-26 · in Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp
  47. …low. In most cases workarounds will be introduced rather than breaking changes. More details at https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1122-lang... Also note that the Rust team tests all the crates before making a (minor)…
    comment by barosl · 2015-06-25 · in Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp
  48. The main places to look are https://internals.rust-lang.org/ , https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs , https://github.com/rust-lang/rust (for actual implementation), and the Rust IRC channels such as #rust-internals on irc.mozilla.org. IRC is…
    comment by lambda · 2015-06-19 · in Redis re-implemented in Rust
  49. …rust's internals debates and proposals, but I was not sure how to find them. Should I be looking at https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs or is there anywhere else?
    comment by seppo0010 · 2015-06-18 · in Redis re-implemented in Rust
  50. …implemented struct inheritance by now. The reason timeouts were dropped is in the IO/OS reform RFC: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/8fa971a670f9b9bc30f31... > set_timeout has been removed for now (as well as other > timeout-related…
    comment by steveklabnik · 2015-06-18 · in Redis re-implemented in Rust