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  1. …of only one: interfacing with hardware or unsafe OSes that control access to the hardware. [0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2533
    comment by mleonhard · 2021-12-03 · in This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem
  2. There was a proposal for that, but it wasn't accepted https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/890
    comment by nextaccountic · 2021-10-22 · in Rust 1.56.0 and Rust 2021
  3. …distinct. As an example, here's a comment of mine on the original RFC (which was called "epochs"): https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2052#issuecomment-315... (the part with "Some language development comparisons")
    comment by steveklabnik · 2021-10-21 · in Rust 1.56.0 and Rust 2021
  4. This old RFC came up elsewhere in the thread and sounds like a similar idea: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1806
    comment by ahupp · 2021-10-20 · in Builder Pattern in Rust
  5. I hope that one day the default struct field values RFC will be reconsidered: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1806 . This would allow a syntax more familiar to users of JavaScript, where fields with their default value can be…
    comment by nitsky · 2021-10-20 · in Builder Pattern in Rust
  6. …'trustme', 'trusted', as well as less serious ones like 'yolo' and 'hold_my_beer_and_watch_this': https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/117 )
    comment by rcxdude · 2021-10-11 · in So You Want to Rust the Linux Kernel?
  7. …and a bad exception design (like Java's) is strictly worse than even Go's error handling. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/243 [2] https://github.com/glaebhoerl/rust-notes/blob/268266e8fbbbfd... [3]…
    comment by nemothekid · 2021-10-08 · in Rust: Enums to Wrap Multiple Errors
  8. ▲ 1
    Rust RFC for increase privacy/reproducibility
    story by transportheap · 2021-09-23 · 0 comments
  9. …}; (This isn’t exactly how it’s implemented—that detail is unstable and has actually changed < https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3058 > since ? was stabilised, without disrupting things!—but it’s equivalent in this instance. As…
    comment by chrismorgan · 2021-09-14 · in Go’ing Insane: Endless Error Handling
  10. Last update on the issue is from April 25th https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2848#issuecomment-8...
    comment by epage · 2021-09-09 · in Rust 1.55.0
  11. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2848#issuecomment-8...
    comment by steveklabnik · 2021-09-09 · in Rust 1.55.0
  12. …Rust proper, not in outside projects. Here a relevant issue, but there is not much progress on it: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2610
    comment by newpavlov · 2021-09-08 · in Rust programs written entirely in Rust
  13. Isn't this (at least in part) addressed by NLLs[1], or am I misunderstanding? [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2094-nll....
    comment by spoiler · 2021-08-10 · in When zero cost abstractions aren't zero cost
  14. Moreover, Rust is working on portability lints: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1868-port... So that even when you only compile and test your code on Linux, you will get warnings about calling Linux-only functions from…
    comment by pornel · 2021-08-09 · in Constexpr is a Platform (2020)
  15. …[3] https://docs.rust-embedded.org/book/intro/no-std.html [4] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2116-allo...
    comment by dodobirdlord · 2021-07-20 · in A GPIO Driver in Rust
  16. …mean that rustc should integrate an industrial-strength SAT solver? Well, this is actually what https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1868-port... would require. There is already chalk, a logic programming language for traits…
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2021-07-08 · in Compiling Rust is NP-hard
  17. …the situation where multiple different versions of the same crate are present is possible. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1977
    comment by nemetroid · 2021-06-14 · in Untapped potential in Rust's type system
  18. See also this comment that makes the ambiguity explicit: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2527#issuecomment-414...
    comment by eslaught · 2021-05-14 · in Rust Weird Expressions
  19. …a look, it's very readable. There's discussion in the corresponding Github issue of the RFCs repo ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs ). If the folks who work in that area are supportive, the RFC will be merged. After that someone needs to…
    comment by nindalf · 2021-05-11 · in The Plan for the Rust 2021 Edition
  20. …for a while that rust would make some progress toward better supporting setjmp/longjump from C: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2625 It's asking a lot, but it's one of very few weak points in Rust/C interoperability, and it would…
    comment by jeff-davis · 2021-05-06 · in Rust 1.52.0
  21. …is really useful for this...) this function calls TryFrom::try_from. which runs afoul of https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0911-cons... > Traits, trait implementations and their methods cannot be const - this allows us to…
    comment by steveklabnik · 2021-05-06 · in Rust 1.52.0
  22. …which is fundamentally an inheritance hierarchy, in Servo. There's a longstanding RFC about it: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/349 Inheritance is one possible solution. There are others.
    comment by twic · 2021-04-30 · in Inheritance was invented as a performance hack
  23. …idea has been demonstrated to be unfit for a systems programming language, and scrapped before 1.0: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/0806be4f282144cfcd55b...
    comment by pornel · 2021-04-26 · in Red and blue functions are a good thing
  24. …support for secret types in LLVM, and Rust is waiting for them to also provide it in Rust [0]. [0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2859
    comment by fuklief · 2021-04-21 · in Preparing Rustls for Wider Adoption
  25. …the standard collection APIs. This RFC is accepted and implemented. See the Josh's answer[2]. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2116-allo... [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YHdSATy9am21Tj4Z@localhost/
    comment by yagizdegirmenci · 2021-04-14 · in An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel
  26. …of NaN to be able to generate good assembly. I'm glad people have noticed and appreciate this. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1961
    comment by pornel · 2021-04-10 · in A look at LLVM: comparing clamp implementations
  27. …only applicable to a subset of problems. Anyways, I found that variadic generics is a draft RFC: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/376
    comment by lenkite · 2021-04-07 · in Rust in the Android Platform
  28. …specifics here, but I should note that this feature was originally literally dependent types. * https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1657 * https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/1930 * https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2000 (the…
    comment by steveklabnik · 2021-04-03 · in Grids in Rust, Part 2: const generics
  29. ▲ 2
    Rust Needs the Ternary Conditional Operator (-?-:-)
    story by markjgx · 2021-03-23 · 0 comments
  30. …this RFC[1] which has been merged and whose implementation progress can be followed here [2] [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2116 [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/48043
    comment by littlestymaar · 2021-03-22 · in How Safe Is Zig?
  31. …proposed removing them has an extremely detailed explanation of why the change was made pre-1.0: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/0806be4f282144cfcd55b... I think this has proven itself to be the right decision. It's one of the main…
    comment by tedmielczarek · 2021-03-11 · in Rust’s async isn’t colored
  32. …were some (related, I think!) proposals here: https://github.com/rust-lang/lang-team/issues/23 https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/3000
    comment by smt1 · 2021-03-10 · in Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work
  33. …proposals and concrete contributions, FWIW: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/graphs/contributors https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/graphs/contributors
    comment by duckerude · 2021-03-03 · in How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success
  34. …3] [0]: https://crates.io/crates/c2rust-bitfields [1]: https://github.com/dzamlo/rust-bitfield [2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/314 [3]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3064
    comment by aw1621107 · 2021-03-02 · in Giving Ada a Chance
  35. …{ // optvalue is none return; }; [1] https://szymonkrajewski.pl/why-should-you-return-early/ [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2616 [3] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1303
    comment by gardaani · 2021-02-19 · in Where Everything Went Wrong: Error Handling and Error Messages in Rust (2020)
  36. I wonder how difficult https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0066-bett... is given that it is from 2014-05-04.
    comment by johnisgood · 2021-02-12 · in Rust 1.50
  37. …like to know why Rust really still has a turbofish, the huge RFC 2544 thread has the full story: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2544 Important points in that discussion (I'm only linking to the comments summarizing other comments):…
    comment by ynik · 2021-02-05 · in Bastion of the Turbofish (2020)
  38. And here's the answer: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2527#issuecomment-414... WOW that's certainly a `wat` EDIT: ok - now that I look at it, I understand. My brain was very, very primed to see the <woe, is> as type parameters -…
    comment by michael_j_ward · 2021-02-05 · in Bastion of the Turbofish (2020)
  39. …composition over inheritance, but Rust for example has problems with up-casting of trait objects (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2765) that inheritance/vtable based languages (e.g. C++) do not have. So it's not a bad comment, and…
    comment by loves_mangoes · 2021-01-17 · in Would Rust Secure Curl?
  40. …links below I found this [1] and this [2] [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/32838 [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1398
    comment by mmastrac · 2021-01-15 · in Why Zig when there is already C++, D, and Rust?
  41. ▲ 3
    Deprecate the Authors Field
    story by aviraldg · 2021-01-13 · 1 comment
  42. …this: Variadic generics[1]. But so far every attempt at an RFC has been closed or postponed. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/376
    comment by Rangi42 · 2021-01-09 · in Building a runtime reflection system for Rust (Part 3)
  43. …st-unofficial.github.io/patterns/patterns/visitor.... [1]: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8213076 [2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2593
    comment by vbrandl · 2021-01-03 · in Rust Design Patterns as a Book
  44. This is a better page to read (although linking to the PR is appropriate for HN): https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/256d1969753f23f1182d4...
    comment by some_furry · 2020-12-18 · in Rust 2021 Roadmap
  45. …roadmaps have been trending this way for a while. See the change over time for yourself: * 2020: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2857-road... * 2019: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2657-road... *…
    comment by steveklabnik · 2020-12-18 · in Rust 2021 Roadmap
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    Rust 2021 Roadmap
    story by praveenperera · 2020-12-18 · 81 comments
  47. Those asm docs are from Rust 1.8; the feature was completely re-written since then. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2873-inli...
    comment by steveklabnik · 2020-12-16 · in Mundane: Rust cryptography library that is difficult to misuse
  48. …isn't a language that offers a solution to this problem so far. But there is an open RFC for it: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/294
    comment by valenterry · 2020-12-08 · in Why nullable types?
  49. …syntax for asm! was recently specified [2], but that will take some time to implement. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2843 [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2873
    comment by cdirkx · 2020-12-01 · in Show HN: Tiny 1k Rust binary on Windows
  50. ▲ 1
    RFC: Rust “Bang (Never) Type”
    story by brundolf · 2020-11-27 · 0 comments