[kibwen]

So yeah, 1.26 is the most substantial release since 1.0, but there's lots more goodies coming in the pipeline. :) It just so happened that all the initiatives from last year are preparing to land at approximately the same time. For example, coming up next in 1.27 is stable SIMD: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/49664 (though only for x86/x86_64 at first; more platforms and high-level crossplatform APIs are on the way).

[pimeys]

The features I'm highly expecting are pinned references and async/await, that will make most of my paid Rust to be so much more readable and maintainable. I know these are coming this year, but any chance they might be already in 1.27?

1.26 has impl Trait, which is one of those things that really makes your life easier as a Rust developer. I've been using beta already with the new API I'm building just to get that feature, now on stable right before I'm actually thinking of deploying the API. Nice.

[kibwen]

The RFC for async/await was actually just accepted two days ago! https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2394#issuecomment-387... :) It's a priority for this year, but it'll be a few months yet; unless something goes unexpectedly wrong, I'd expect it no later than 1.30, releasing on October 25th.

[steveklabnik]

Pin is in nightly, but async/await is not. Both will certainly miss 1.27, and my guess is MAYBE 1.28, probably 1.29.

[Scarbutt]

So yeah, 1.26 is the most substantial release since 1.0, but there's lots more goodies coming in the pipeline

Will rust users get a break someday?

[steveklabnik]

It's been three years since 1.0, or at least, it will be in five days :) I'd say one mega-release every three years is pretty... slow, honestly.

That being said, we'll be adding new language features as they fix pain points for users and fit in with the rest of the language; when that's not true, we won't move so quickly. Rust is still fairly young, there's a lot to do!