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Isn't it though? I think Rust's processes have done pretty well here. Mara has written somewhere about how effective it is - unlike in a setup like WG21 - to just do stuff in Rust instead of waiting around for some imaginary higher power to grant your wishes, write the code and raise a PR to land your change.

For example, suppose you really want Mutex::unlock(). Right now that's behind the feature gate, but it's not controversial, if you feel like this more explicit function call is helpful you could put the work in to stabilize it and get the gate removed in say 1.61.

[[ Mutex::unlock(guard) is just equivalent to drop(guard) since of course dropping the guard will unlock the mutex which is why you usually don't do either, your guard will go out of scope and get dropped automatically, so the reason to want Mutex::unlock() is that it reads more naturally ]]

In C++ the pointer provenance problem has been sat around for almost twenty years as an unresolved defect in, I believe, C++ 98.

In Rust, Aria was like "We should provide a new API to do provenance in a sound way" and she shipped it (admittedly as a nightly feature, not stable) before I'd finished all the prior reading.