[Manishearth]

Yeah this was my biggest fear with edition changes: You can fix live code, but you can't as easily fix existing programmers' mental models, and you can't update all existing online resources.

OpenGL has this issue and it sucks, and i did bring this up during the edition discussions but it didn't stack up as well against arguments on the other side.

I'm self taught and "google things until it works" is a key aspect of how i learn, and i'm disappointed to see this workflow somewhat broken in Rust. Over time, it will heal (it's much harder to find stuff that uses `try!` now), but it's still annoying.