When will it be that Rust is stable? Many moon ago I was of the told that December of 2014 would be the calendar date of the Rust stable version. Yet December is now and I see no Rust stable version. When come it? When?
The project has 2,100 open issues and 8,500 closed issues.
The stability more or less comes down to the community moving away from targeting nightly, and that can only happen when all of the fires are put out. There are still a lot of breaking changes and clean-up being done in the final hour.
Some people consider stable to mean that the language is "production ready", which often implies a complete set of common libraries. There is still a lot of work to be done in this regard after 1.0. Doing the nightly build whack-a-mole is too frustrating for many, though, so 1.0 will help a lot for developing the ecosystem that a "public ready" language needs.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs#active-rfc-list
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