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Mozilla's Servo Browser Now Available Nightly
The Servo browser, built from scratch by Mozilla Research, has matured to the point where nightly builds are available for download. The group hopes to broaden the browser's reach so that they can quickly improve its web compatibility and performance.
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Rust 1.9 Improves Error Handling and Compile Time
A new exception handling API in the recently announced Rust 1.9 adds more control when dealing with cross-thread exception propagation. The new version also brings better compiler performance when deciding variable equality.
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Rustup Aims to Make Cross-Compiling Rust Much Easier
Rustup, introduced with Rust 1.8, is a toolchain manager for Rust that aims to make it much easier to cross-compile Rust code. Mozilla engineer Brian Anderson has recently shared more details about it.
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Rust 1.8 Introduces New Cargo-based Build System and more
Rust 1.8 adds a couple of new language features and a number of improvements to the standard library. Additionally, it introduces a new Cargo-based build system for rustc which can be seen as the first step towards bootstrapping Rust.
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Rust 1.7 Brings 2x Faster Hashes and New Stable APIs
After to stabilizing libcore in version 1.6, recently announced Rust 1.7 brings improvements and stability to about 40 library functions and methods. Additionally, Rust package manager Cargo got two new features for better dependency handling.
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Rust 1.6 Brings Stable Support for OS and Embedded Development
In keeping with their release model, the Rust development team has announced the first Rust release of 2016, 1.6. The biggest new feature that Rust 1.6 brings is libcore stabilization, which aims to make it possible to use stable Rust for OS and embedded software development.
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Rust 1.5 Released with Cargo Install
The Rust core team has released 1.5, with around 700 changes including the introduction of cargo install and shrinking the metadata size by 20%.
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Rust 1.4 Brings Major Improvement to Cargo
The Rust core team has released 1.4 stable, with approximately 1200 changes including a major improvement to Cargo, stabilised APIs, and fixes to improve the behavior of associated types.
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Rust 1.3 Brings Stabilisation for APIs
The Rust core team has released 1.3 stable, bringing with it API stabilisation and further work on performance. The team says the language has seen with this release a large amount of stabilisation "including the new Duration API and enhancements to Error and Hash/Hasher," and that further growth of the std::time module is expected "in the 1.5 timeframe."
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Visual Studio Code v0.3: Support for Rust and F# debugging
Microsoft has released v0.3 of its native Visual Studio application, bringing with it support for Rust, as well as changes to keybindings.
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Rust Achieves Stability, Ready for Production Use
The Rust programming language started by Mozilla Research has now met the 1.0 milestone. It provides a stable foundation for developers ready to write software with it and a "commitment to stability" from the Rust project team.
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Rust Beyond 1.0: Where It Stands, Where It is Headed
As Rust 1.0 official release approaches, Mozilla Research’s Niko Matsakis has set out an initial assessment of priorities for new features to be added to the language in the future. This is meant as a way to trigger a public discussion about the direction that the Rust language should take. InfoQ has spoken with Matsakis.
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Rust Plans Roadmap to 1.0 Beta
The development team for the Rust systems programming language has released its schedule for the first beta release of the forthcoming 1.0 release. Rust is designed to provide the features of modern programming languages while retaining the power of C/C++.