For anyone like me who hasn’t seen an edition change before, it’s just a mechanism for bundling breaking changes together and making them opt-in.
We are excited to announce that the Rust 2024 Edition is now stable! Editions are a mechanism for opt-in changes that may otherwise pose a backwards compatibility risk.
@Rogue@snaggen Yeah, it’s a setting in Cargo.toml that you have to update manually if you want to upgrade. It is set to latest edition in new projects. And the nice thing:
it’s configurable per-crate, not per-compilation. So you can depend on crates that use different editions than your crate. Which avoids ecosystem fragmentation.
it’s configurable per-crate, not per-compilation. So you can depend on crates that use different editions than your crate. Which avoids ecosystem fragmentation.
Thanks! That pre-empted my next question of how quickly crates typically update to newer editions. I guess it doesn’t matter
There is also cargo fix --edition which can update your code in a very conservative way automatically. The result might not be as idiomatic but errs on the side of having semantics that do not change.
You can think of the Rust Editions as updates to the language, that would break compatibility with previous versions. But the key here is, that you can mix crates with older versions and the new one in one project and cargo will figure out which one to use for each crate (based on the cargo.toml file). That means breaking changes without breaking compatibility of existing libraries and crates, unlike in other languages.
For anyone like me who hasn’t seen an edition change before, it’s just a mechanism for bundling breaking changes together and making them opt-in.
@Rogue @snaggen Yeah, it’s a setting in Cargo.toml that you have to update manually if you want to upgrade. It is set to latest edition in new projects. And the nice thing:
it’s configurable per-crate, not per-compilation. So you can depend on crates that use different editions than your crate. Which avoids ecosystem fragmentation.
Thanks! That pre-empted my next question of how quickly crates typically update to newer editions. I guess it doesn’t matter
There is also
cargo fix --editionwhich can update your code in a very conservative way automatically. The result might not be as idiomatic but errs on the side of having semantics that do not change.You can think of the Rust Editions as updates to the language, that would break compatibility with previous versions. But the key here is, that you can mix crates with older versions and the new one in one project and cargo will figure out which one to use for each crate (based on the cargo.toml file). That means breaking changes without breaking compatibility of existing libraries and crates, unlike in other languages.