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> Rust is beginning to understand that they need more stability

i though rust has been stable since 1.0. am i wrong?

I mean stability in what they are offering. LTS versions are essentially being done through the concepts of Editions, where every other year or so, a new edition is released and the changes and new features from the previous edition up to that point are summarized.

It's not that rust code is breaking, that's not it. It's that with new things happening every six weeks, if I wanted to write something that 100 developers will work on, how would I do that? Where I would begin? What version should I choose to ensure everybody is on the same page?

Once 2018 edition is polished up, this will be mostly a solved issue, so kudos to rust team.

But yeah. This is an ocaml thread anyways.

Note that official Rust team position is that Edition is explicitly not LTS and should not be considered as such.

Actually there was a long thread on Rust internals forum where they worried people may mistake Edition as LTS, but conclusion was that confusion can be prevented by explicit messaging. Looking at your post, I think worry was justified.

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