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RFCs for changes to Rust

685 mentions on Hacker News by 352 people: 46 stories, 639 comments · first 2014-04-09 · latest 2026-08-22

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  1. …fits this case, IMO). [1] http://discuss.rust-lang.org/t/if-int-has-the-wrong-size/454... [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/464
  2. …in" blog and the RFC's also, to form your own opinion of stability http://this-week-in-rust.org/ https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs#active-rfc-list __________________________ discussion re: stdlib and 1.0…
    comment by gtani · 2014-12-02 · in Go: Planning the 1.5 release
  3. …single driven community member can achieve. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/18009 [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/235 [3] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/18424
    comment by kibwen · 2014-11-19 · in Rust, Lifetimes, and Collections
  4. …support for within-application custom allocators, it looks like this is still under discussion: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/244
    comment by rdw · 2014-11-15 · in Allocators in Rust
  5. …seen a way to swap out the memory allocator in various contexts. You mean something like this? https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/244 I think part of it was inspired by something similar from C++. D-lang also seems to have something…
    comment by Dewie · 2014-11-10 · in Real-Time Garbage Collection Is Real
  6. The motivation doesn't have to do with it looking like comments: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/386
    comment by steveklabnik · 2014-10-30 · in A taste of Rust for C/C++ programmers
  7. …much easier. There's still work to be done on this front, but I'm _incredibly_ excited by this RFC: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/403
    comment by steveklabnik · 2014-10-19 · in Rust vs. C++ Benchmark Game
  8. That too is being removed: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/230
    comment by m0th87 · 2014-10-19 · in Rust vs. C++ Benchmark Game
  9. …iterators (but it might not be relevant to your question at all, I haven't had my tea yet...). https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/105/files > when is Rust going to compile to Javascript Never officially , but that doesn't mean an…
    comment by kibwen · 2014-10-17 · in On Error Handling in Rust
  10. …to be constrained too much to get either model where it should be. The decision was made around https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/230 but I'm not sure whether there's any important prior discussion not linked from there, the topic has…
  11. Unfortunately I don't think higher-kinded types are planned for Rust 1.0. See the rfc: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/324 and this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7997926
  12. Does the RFC230 ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/230 ) removal of green threads give me out of box 1:1 threading or just that std::io uses native threads and the rest has to use green threads only now as an additional outside…
    comment by blinkingled · 2014-10-09 · in Rust 0.12.0 released
  13. …fn get_mut(&mut self) -> &mut T; fn print(s: &str); This is a pretty huge readability win. 1: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/active/0039-li...
    comment by steveklabnik · 2014-10-09 · in Rust 0.12.0 released
  14. …about them to determine if they should be dropped This is in the process of being eliminated (see https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/320 ). I didn't mention it because it's runtime overhead that will not be present shortly, and…
  15. …current options. Fear not however as post 1.0, optional GC will be most likely added to Rust. See https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/244 .
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2014-10-07 · in Rust means never having to close a socket
  16. There is ongoing discussion about this, eg here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/239 (related reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2gs85u/rfc_allow_compi... )
  17. …to allow statics to have the same sort of very simple inference scheme that C++ and Go have: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/296
    comment by kibwen · 2014-10-02 · in A Fresh Look at Rust
  18. …discussion[1] about Rust possibly moving to a static model, for the highest performance. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/210
  19. …(there's no guarantee that it will be implemented though, just that the idea is mostly sound). [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/active/0031-be...
  20. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/230 It's "just" an RFC, but the notion that has some momentum built up already.
  21. …the way to advocate a change is to write an RFC. To do so, you fork the rfcs repo on GitHub ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs ), and write a document describing your proposal and its pros and cons. Then the community can discuss it, and…
    comment by lambda · 2014-09-13 · in Rust Guide
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    RFC for overhauling Rust's runtime system / IO libraries
    story by nham · 2014-09-10 · 0 comments
  23. ▲ 3
    This RFC proposes a simplification to the I/O stack distributed with Rust
    story by hamidr · 2014-08-29 · 0 comments
  24. …pretty darn convenient! [0]: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta... [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/204
    comment by sanderjd · 2014-08-18 · in Java 9 features announced
  25. There was an RFC: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/148 The author closed it after finding that there were no non-subjective reasons. Moving to []s causes other ambiguities.
    comment by steveklabnik · 2014-08-15 · in A Rust curiosity: pointers to zero-sized types
  26. Here's a recent RFC closed by its author on the subject: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/148 (a big issue with []-generics is that they're easy to confuse with indexing/slicing to a human. <> may look noisy, but it's harder to…
    comment by masklinn · 2014-07-02 · in Rust 0.11.0 Released
  27. While this is true, that doesn't mean precedent is irrelevant. While what kiwiben said is true, https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/148#issuecomment-4771...
    comment by steveklabnik · 2014-07-02 · in Rust 0.11.0 Released
  28. …for use by the time 0.12 rolls around. We also have some very exciting RFCs in the pipe, such as https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/141 , which would make it possible to remove 90% of the lifetime parameters from our function…
    comment by kibwen · 2014-07-02 · in Rust 0.11.0 Released
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    Rust RFC: rename 'unsafe' to 'trusted.'
    story by steveklabnik · 2014-06-12 · 0 comments
  30. …organization, get a newsfeed of their latest releases and announcement, and highlight commits (ex: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/59 ) ! I don't have time to implement this as an idea, but I think Github has that resource to…
    comment by yeukhon · 2014-05-03 · in A Chinese copy of GitHub.com
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    ‘~’ is being removed from Rust
    story by steveklabnik · 2014-05-02 · 115 comments
  32. ▲ 2
    Remove `~` in favor of `box` and `Box`
    story by mikeleeorg · 2014-05-01 · 0 comments
  33. …and corner cases, rather than just some syntax/use-cases) would need to go through the RFC process: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/active/0001-rf... ((Unfortunately?) I imagine such an RFC would spend a month or two (or…
    comment by dbaupp · 2014-04-27 · in Rust by Example
  34. …a lot of effort to be as transparent and participatory as possible in designing the system. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/
  35. …without losing all of the other goodies. Here's the most recent RFC for doing so, filed yesterday: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/40/files
    comment by kibwen · 2014-04-09 · in TLS/SSL implementation in Haskell