[rust-dev] Rust 0.6 released
Brian Anderson
banderson at mozilla.com
Wed Apr 3 07:55:57 PDT 2013
Mozilla and the Rust community are pleased to announce version 0.6 of
the Rust compiler and associated tools. Rust is a systems programming
language with a focus on safety, performance and concurrency.
This was our most active development cycle yet, with patches from many
new contributors. This release continues our ongoing efforts to finalize
the language syntax and semantics, removing many obsolete features. There
has also been a lot of work to clean up and improve the core library.
Finally, our friends at Samsung have contributed an experimental port
to ARM and [Android].
The brief release notes are included in this announcement, and there is
further explanation in the detailed release [notes] on the wiki.
Documentation and all the links in this email are available on the
[website]. As usual, version 0.6 should be considered an alpha release,
suitable for early adopters and language enthusiasts. Please file [bugs].
[website]: http://www.rust-lang.org
[notes]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Doc-detailed-release-notes
[bugs]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues
[Android]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Doc-building-for-android
This release is available as both a tarball and a Windows installer:
* http://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.6.tar.gz
http://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.6.tar.gz.asc
SHA256 (of .tar.gz):
e11cb529a1e20f27d99033181a9e0e131817136b46d2742f0fa1afa1210053e5
* http://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.6-install.exe
http://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.6-install.exe.asc
SHA256 (of .exe):
54d16fec24c512676bd8ef7117540c839a4e48e5f0e79a2dd3999633ef625ab3
Thanks to all [contributors]!
Regards,
The Rust Team
Version 0.6 (April 2013)
---------------------------
* ~2100 changes, numerous bugfixes
* Syntax changes
* The self type parameter in traits is now spelled `Self`
* The `self` parameter in trait and impl methods must now be explicitly
named (for example: `fn f(&self) { }`). Implicit self is deprecated.
* Static methods no longer require the `static` keyword and instead
are distinguished by the lack of a `self` parameter
* Replaced the `Durable` trait with the `'static` lifetime
* The old closure type syntax with the trailing sigil has been
removed in favor of the more consistent leading sigil
* `super` is a keyword, and may be prefixed to paths
* Trait bounds are separated with `+` instead of whitespace
* Traits are implemented with `impl Trait for Type`
instead of `impl Type: Trait`
* Lifetime syntax is now `&'l foo` instead of `&l/foo`
* The `export` keyword has finally been removed
* The `move` keyword has been removed (see "Semantic changes")
* The interior mutability qualifier on vectors, `[mut T]`, has been
removed. Use `&mut [T]`, etc.
* `mut` is no longer valid in `~mut T`. Use inherited mutability
* `fail` is no longer a keyword. Use `fail!()`
* `assert` is no longer a keyword. Use `assert!()`
* `log` is no longer a keyword. use `debug!`, etc.
* 1-tuples may be represented as `(T,)`
* Struct fields may no longer be `mut`. Use inherited mutability,
`@mut T`, `core::mut` or `core::cell`
* `extern mod { ... }` is no longer valid syntax for foreign
function modules. Use extern blocks: `extern { ... }`
* Newtype enums removed. Use tuple-structs.
* Trait implementations no longer support visibility modifiers
* Pattern matching over vectors improved and expanded
* `const` renamed to `static` to correspond to lifetime name,
and make room for future `static mut` unsafe mutable globals.
* Replaced `#[deriving_eq]` with `#[deriving(Eq)]`, etc.
* `Clone` implementations can be automatically generated with
`#[deriving(Clone)]`
* Casts to traits must use a pointer sigil, e.g. `@foo as @Bar`
instead of `foo as Bar`.
* Fixed length vector types are now written as `[int, .. 3]`
instead of `[int * 3]`.
* Fixed length vector types can express the length as a constant
expression. (ex: `[int, .. GL_BUFFER_SIZE - 2]`)
* Semantic changes
* Types with owned pointers or custom destructors move by default,
eliminating the `move` keyword
* All foreign functions are considered unsafe
* &mut is now unaliasable
* Writes to borrowed @mut pointers are prevented dynamically
* () has size 0
* The name of the main function can be customized using #[main]
* The default type of an inferred closure is &fn instead of @fn
* `use` statements may no longer be "chained" - they cannot import
identifiers imported by previous `use` statements
* `use` statements are crate relative, importing from the "top"
of the crate by default. Paths may be prefixed with `super::`
or `self::` to change the search behavior.
* Method visibility is inherited from the implementation declaration
* Structural records have been removed
* Many more types can be used in static items, including enums
'static-lifetime pointers and vectors
* Pattern matching over vectors improved and expanded
* Typechecking of closure types has been overhauled to
improve inference and eliminate unsoundness
* Macros leave scope at the end of modules, unless that module is
tagged with #[macro_escape]
* Libraries
* Added big integers to `std::bigint`
* Removed `core::oldcomm` module
* Added pipe-based `core::comm` module
* Numeric traits have been reorganized under `core::num`
* `vec::slice` finally returns a slice
* `debug!` and friends don't require a format string, e.g. `debug!(Foo)`
* Containers reorganized around traits in `core::container`
* `core::dvec` removed, `~[T]` is a drop-in replacement
* `core::send_map` renamed to `core::hashmap`
* `std::map` removed; replaced with `core::hashmap`
* `std::treemap` reimplemented as an owned balanced tree
* `std::deque` and `std::smallintmap` reimplemented as owned containers
* `core::trie` added as a fast ordered map for integer keys
* Set types added to `core::hashmap`, `core::trie` and `std::treemap`
* `Ord` split into `Ord` and `TotalOrd`. `Ord` is still used to
overload the comparison operators, whereas `TotalOrd` is used
by certain container types
* Other
* Replaced the 'cargo' package manager with 'rustpkg'
* Added all-purpose 'rust' tool
* `rustc --test` now supports benchmarks with the `#[bench]` attribute
* rustc now *attempts* to offer spelling suggestions
* Improved support for ARM and Android
* Preliminary MIPS backend
* Improved foreign function ABI implementation for x86, x86_64
* Various memory usage improvements
* Rust code may be embedded in foreign code under limited circumstances
* Inline assembler supported by new asm!() syntax extension.
[contributors]: Contributors to Rust 0.6:
Alex Crichton
Andrew Paseltiner
Armin Ronacher
Ashok Gautham
Aydin Kim
Ben Alpert
Ben Blum
Benjamin Herr
Ben Kelly
Ben Striegel
Brendan Zabarauskas
Brian Anderson
Brian Leibig
Chris Peterson
Cody Schroeder
Daniel Micay
Daniel Ursache Dogariu
David Forsythe
Dimitri Krassovski
Eric J. Holmes
Erick Tryzelaar
Felix S. Klock II
Franklin Chen
gareth
gifnksm
Graydon Hoare
hansjorg
Huon Wilson
ILyong Cho
Jed Davis
Jeff Olson
Jens Nockert
Jeong YunWon
Jihyun Yu
John Clements
Josh Matthews
Jyun-Yan You
Kang Seonghoon
kud1ing
Kyeongwoon Lee
Laurent Bonnans
Lawrence Velázquez
Lenny222
Lindsey Kuper
Luca Bruno
Luqman Aden
Mark Lacey
Mark Vian
Martin DeMello
Marvin Löbel
Matthew McPherrin
Matthijs Hofstra
Michael Neumann
Mikko Perttunen
Nick Desaulniers
Niko Matsakis
Olivier Saut
oncemoreification
Patrick Walton
Peter Williams
Seo Sanghyeon
Seth Pink
sevrak
Simon Sapin
Stefan Plantikow
Steve Klabnik
Ted Horst
Thad Guidry
Tim Chevalier
Tim Taubert
Trinick
Tycho Sci
Tyler Bindon
Viktor Dahl
William Ting
David Klein
Young-il Choi
Youngsoo Son
Zack Corr
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