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  1. …explained the main reason why the standard library could not just adopt parking_lot mutexes: From https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/93740 > One of the problems with replacing std's lock implementations by parking_lot is that…
    comment by kccqzy · 2025-11-24 · in Inside Rust's std and parking_lot mutexes – who wins?
  2. …crates whose names differ only in the use of dashes vs underscores. > package namespaces See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/122349 > proof of ownership See https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3724 and…
    comment by kibwen · 2025-11-24 · in Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected
  3. …to call it something else? You don't need transmute or leak. The issue is only 10 years old now https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/25860
    comment by tick_tock_tick · 2025-11-13 · in Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
  4. …the best possible advertisement for ”we enable soundness and correctness for all your programs.” https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20la...
    comment by ViewTrick1002 · 2025-11-13 · in Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
  5. …not true of Rust. It's not supposed to be, but Rust does have plenty of outstanding soundness bugs: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20la... Rust as intended is safe and sound unless you write u-n-s-a-f-e, but as…
    comment by quotemstr · 2025-11-11 · in Memory Safety for Skeptics
  6. …of a vector without needing that trick (and with compile-time checks for alignment compatibility): https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/148416 But that example aside, I agree with your overall premise -- Zig and Rust share different…
    comment by NobodyNada · 2025-11-10 · in Zig and the design choices within
  7. …tracking support for features which were deprecated but had yet to be removed from the compiler: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/4707 , and that's just a single snapshot from one moment in Rust's prehistory.
    comment by kibwen · 2025-11-08 · in Why is Zig so cool?
  8. Scalable vectors as in RVV & SVE aren't available in rust corrently; see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/145052 (that said autovectorization should work, and fixed-width SIMD should map to RVV as best as possible, though of course…
    comment by dzaima · 2025-11-05 · in The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025
  9. Thanks, referred to your comment here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/148546#issuecomment...
    comment by sunshowers · 2025-11-05 · in SocketAddrV6 is not roundtrip serializable
  10. …for core::simd), and you can't manually use "#[rustc_intrinsic]" & co in stable rust either. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/b01cc1cf01ed12adb2595... [2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/b01cc1cf01ed12adb2595...
    comment by dzaima · 2025-11-05 · in The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025
  11. …effect on Rust development. Today the activity in the Rust repo is as high as it's ever been ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/graphs/contributors ) and the governance of the project is more organized and healthy than it's ever been (…
    comment by kibwen · 2025-11-01 · in Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust
  12. Those pages are out of date, and AsyncDrop is in progress: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/126482 I think "practically rudderless" here is fairly misinformed and a little harmful/rude to all the folks doing tons of great work…
    comment by raggi · 2025-10-31 · in Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust
  13. Most of your post completely falls apart when considering https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/127343
    comment by rustdebacletime · 2025-10-25 · in Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates
  14. …It makes a world of difference if it is a language change or not. As shown in dtolnay's comment https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/127343#issuecomment... . If breakage is not due to a language change, and the program is fully…
    comment by rustdebacletime · 2025-10-24 · in Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates
  15. …consideration of the issue basically disqualifies it from being made "on a whim", in my view. [0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/99969 [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/127343 [2]:…
    comment by aw1621107 · 2025-10-24 · in Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates
  16. …far off in regards to breaking compatibility. And it caused some projects, like Nix, a lot of pain. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/127343 https://devclass.com/2024/08/19/rust-1-80-0-breaks-existing-...
    comment by rustdebacletime · 2025-10-24 · in Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates
  17. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/73632 needs to be addressed and then integrated into meson before systemd could consider adopting rust.
    comment by DaanDeMeyer · 2025-10-16 · in Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development
  18. …reason, zed compilation on windows with msvc is extremely slow compared to the Linux counterpart. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/145864 was opened because of the the discrepancy
    comment by eyeris · 2025-10-16 · in Zed is now available on Windows
  19. …not sure any of the Rust devs would agree? Have any of them made a claim along those lines? [0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/57893 [1]: https://github.com/Speykious/cve-rs
    comment by aw1621107 · 2025-10-15 · in Why Is SQLite Coded In C
  20. For slices the access is handled inside of the compiler: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/235a4c083eb2a2bfe8779... I'm checking to see how array access is implemented, whether through deref to slice, or otherwise.
    comment by OptionOfT · 2025-10-15 · in Why Is SQLite Coded In C
  21. …The current version of the Rust compiler definitely doesn't -- there's known issues like https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/57893 -- but maybe there's some historical version from before the features that caused those problems were…
    comment by csande17 · 2025-10-15 · in Why Is SQLite Coded In C
  22. …has grown in complexity over time to address real needs. Here's what it looked like at 1.0.0: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/1.0.0/src/libcollecti...
    comment by steveklabnik · 2025-10-09 · in Under the hood: Vec<T>
  23. …more than the requested amount of memory, the excess is ignored for the purposes of Vec's capacity: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/4b57d8154a6a74d2514cd... Of course, this can change in the future; in particular, the entire…
    comment by kbolino · 2025-10-09 · in Under the hood: Vec<T>
  24. …with something that ends up being unusable in many cases people actually want to use them on. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/32838
    comment by whytevuhuni · 2025-10-04 · in Arenas in Rust
  25. …conditions } [0]: https://github.com/Amanieu/rfcs/blob/more_atomic_types/text/... [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/c58a5da7d48ff3887afe4...
    comment by aw1621107 · 2025-09-25 · in Wild performance tricks
  26. …so common posix layers like cygwin [0]. Most C posix compliant stuff compiles in my experience. [0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/137819
    comment by riedel · 2025-09-20 · in Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system
  27. …even uses an arrow to indicate “oh this was too long for me”: `feels like a regression as →` https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/146121 [4]: 1ed3cd7030718935a5c5e5c8f6581f36d8be179f [5]: Closer to the Linux Kernel style than the Git…
    comment by keybored · 2025-09-11 · in The origin story of merge queues
  28. …part is that 99.9% of safe Rust code is sound. [0] https://hal.science/hal-01633165v2/document [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/25860 [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/107975
    comment by quamserena · 2025-09-07 · in C++26: Erroneous behaviour
  29. …look at compilers for languages with pattern matching (e.g. Rust), you still see... visitors! E.g.: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/64a99db105f45ea330473...
    comment by cyberax · 2025-08-31 · in Cognitive load is what matters
  30. …had assumed that there are some kind of soundness issues that force that particular approach (e.g., https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/110975 , "Any panics while the panic hook is executing will force an immediate abort. This is…
    comment by aw1621107 · 2025-08-25 · in In-Memory Filesystems in Rust
  31. …fsync either). If you have a bare File then drop really just closes the file descriptor, that's it. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/ee361e8fca1c30e13e7a3...
    comment by the8472 · 2025-08-25 · in In-Memory Filesystems in Rust
  32. To drive the point home: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Aj...
    comment by estebank · 2025-08-21 · in The Core of Rust
  33. …trait system. You can see all the soundness issues, many of which are tagged T-types here ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Ao... ). They really want to fix these, and they hope the new trait solver makes it…
    comment by testdelacc1 · 2025-08-20 · in Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software
  34. …that supports constexpr, like Rust's const fn [0], can execute arbitrary code at compile time. [0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/57563
    comment by shakna · 2025-08-19 · in How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos
  35. …are doing this too, but for the unrelated reason of trying to support various async runtimes). [0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/32838
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2025-08-18 · in Why Nim?
  36. …as if the discussion and decisions from 2023 had never happened. The tracking issue for the RFC was https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/113527 . You can see the last update was in 2023, at the point where it was time to start the…
    comment by mjw1007 · 2025-08-16 · in Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software
  37. …I suspect you have your eye on too is: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119472 aka https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/107975 https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/45725 But it seems like it's just that everybody…
    comment by tialaramex · 2025-08-12 · in Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2024)
  38. …mutual recursion) Support got added to nightly quite recently, in fact - on 2025-07-31 [0]. [0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/144232
    comment by aw1621107 · 2025-08-12 · in Why tail-recursive functions are loops
  39. …unsafe helps a lot, but it’s not a formal proof, especially across crates and compiler versions. 1. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/107975 2. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/labels/I-unsound On the safety spectrum: C/C++ -> Zig…
    comment by lossolo · 2025-08-09 · in Partially Matching Zig Enums
  40. …full functionality can be exposed with the unstable -Zunleash-the-miri-inside-of-you flag [0]. [0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/56123
    comment by LegionMammal978 · 2025-08-09 · in Why Cargo Check Is So Slow
  41. Link to actual GitHub PR since Reddit blocks some ASNs: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/144232 From documentation, and a test in the PR: When tail calling a function, instead of its stack frame being added to the stack, the stack…
    comment by a2128 · 2025-08-07 · in Explicit tail calls are now available on Rust Nightly (become keyword)
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    Explicit tail call optimization in Rust on nightly merged
    story by akkad33 · 2025-08-06 · 0 comments
  43. …stable where it defaulted to the system allocator until Rust 1.32 released in January 2019 [2] [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/55238 [2]: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/01/17/Rust-1.32.0/ At the time in 2018, however, I was…
    comment by CupricTea · 2025-08-05 · in A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability
  44. Note that that language has changed: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commit/58645e06d9121ae3765...
    comment by OptionOfT · 2025-08-04 · in Names are not type safety (2020)
  45. …because the Rust devs wanted to give the ecosystem time to migrate. More discussion at [2]. [0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/78802 [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/78802#event-709670882... [2]:…
    comment by aw1621107 · 2025-08-01 · in Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
  46. …stable, but not always. > https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/type-inference-breakage-in ... > https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/127343 > 300 comments on Github. > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/332176 Might worth noting that…
    comment by aw1621107 · 2025-08-01 · in Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
  47. …supported due to correctness concerns, but due to historical accidents and backwards compatibility. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/41620#issuecomment-... https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/84045#issuecomment-82...
    comment by justcuriousab · 2025-08-01 · in Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
  48. …somewhat stable, but not always. https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/type-inference-breakage-in... https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/127343 300 comments on Github. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/332176 Rust has editions, but…
    comment by justcuriousab · 2025-08-01 · in Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
  49. …attribute macros via declarative macro definitions are coming soon, which probably obviates this? https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/143549
    comment by dochtman · 2025-07-31 · in Advanced Rust macros with derive-deftly
  50. Here it is extracted for you: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=release&edit... https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/107975#issuecomment...
    comment by tux3 · 2025-07-29 · in New Aarch64 Back End