Ask HN: Rust stability in 2019

2 points by z0mbie42 5 years ago

Hi, (it's a cross post from Rust forums to reach people who may have left the Rust bus because of the problems discussed below)

I plan to invest a large amount of time and energy in Rust in 2019, but I first need to be reassured about one thing:

Will Rust stabilize in 2019 ?

I mean there is already a large amount of features in the language and the mentality seems to add even more every 6 weeks.

At a first glance it seems appealing, but it also seems a very good way to fragment the projects using it and limit open source contributions and collaboration.

Here is an example:

Coming in Rust in 2019 I need to understand the edition thing (which IMHO is a very good way to fragment the projects and thus collaboration),

I need to understand that the code I'm reading which was written 4 months ago may not embeds the latest Rust features so there is a better/cleaner way to achieve the thing today,

I need to understand that in 6 or 12 weeks a new feature will be released in stable and thus the pattern I'm struggling to implement will be deprecated,

I need to understand that some talented peoples works on projects targeting nightly only and thus we are not be able to collaborate / take advantage of their work in a stable project.

I'm may miss other things that result in a fragmented community, but is there any plan to stop this ?

I'm a little bit afraid to invest my time in a language which will become a monstrosity of stacked features in 2 years.

Kind regards