Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha
Jan 9, 2015 • The Rust Core Team
Today, we’re excited to release the alpha version of Rust 1.0, a systems programming language with a focus on safety, performance and concurrency.
This release marks a huge milestone for Rust and its community:
The language is feature-complete for 1.0. While we plan to make many usability improvements before the final release, all 1.0 language features are now in place and we do not expect major breaking changes to them.
The core libraries are feature-complete for 1.0. API conventions have been firmly established, and core functionality – basic types, traits, data structures and concurrency primitives – has all been stabilized. Here again we do not expect major breaking changes before 1.0.
The Rust community really rolled up their sleeves to help push this release over the finish line; thanks to everyone who participated, and especially to the friends of the tree!
While we’ve come a long way in the last four months, there’s a lot left to do before Rust hits 1.0 final. Read on for more.