[exacube]

I don't think the release cadenece (6 weeks) is the cause for how fast the language was changing.

As a counter examples, Go release roughly every ~26 weeks and mostly has releases with minor updates. Chromium releases every 6 weeks but not every release has major updates; they are mostly bug fixes and minor improvements. Even Android is decoupling its system services into components which can be updated through the Play store at a much faster cadence than their yearly releases.

I agree that Rust needs to now focus on polish over new features at this point, but I'm not sure that Rust should've done something differently, especially around its release cadence. I don't think it would've been a good contender for serious companies if they hadn't invested heavily in async, for example.

[paavohtl]

Rust has a release every 6 weeks, but there haven't been any new major new features in stable since async await, which was in November 2019. The situation is not too different from Chromium.