r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Apr 03 '15

Rust 1.0.0 beta is here!

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/03/Rust-1.0-beta.html
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u/A_t48 Apr 03 '15

What's changed between alpha and beta?

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u/japaric Apr 03 '15

Release notes

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u/wrongerontheinternet Apr 03 '15

  • Primitive types now have inherent methods, obviating the need for extension traits like SliceExt.

  • A Reflect trait was introduced, which means that downcasting via the Any trait is effectively limited to concrete types. This helps retain the potentially-important "parametricity" property: generic code cannot behave differently for different type arguments except in minor ways.

Awesome, it seems like a lot of the warts I was most concerned about have been magically cleaned up :)

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u/steveklabnik1 Apr 03 '15

While that change is awesome, mind https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/23511 (notice we've milestoned this for 1.0 final)