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88 points BrainBacon | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 13:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

This project is inspired by some of the asserts in Unreal engine.

Due to reliance on core_intrinsics it is necessary to develop using nightly Rust, but there are stubs in place so a production build will not require nightly.

I recently released version 0.2 which includes no_std support and adds optional log message arguments to the ensure macro.

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revskill ◴[20 Nov 24 13:49 UTC] No.42193918[source]▶
What does nightly mean ? I hate that you could not know a specific version of a nightly.
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nindalf ◴[20 Nov 24 13:57 UTC] No.42193965[source]▶
The master branch of the Rust repo is built every night and distributed. That's a nightly build. Most people are on the stable release, which is updated every six weeks.

A minority use the nightly build for various reasons: a feature that hasn't reached stable yet, or because they want to help test the nightly releases and prevent bugs from reaching stable.

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jtrueb ◴[20 Nov 24 14:06 UTC] No.42194032[source]▶
Is it a minority? Are there stats posted for this?

Only recently have I had some projects switching to stable after their required features stabilized.

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1. JoshTriplett ◴[20 Nov 24 14:14 UTC] No.42194079{3}[source]▶
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rust-lang/surveys/main/sur...

89.4% of users surveyed use stable. 31.1% use nightly, but there's overlap there (e.g. I use nightly to try out new things but don't build things that depend on nightly). Only 11.5% of people say they use a crate that requires it.