Hands-On Concurrency with Rust

Getting set up

Now that we have a handle on the machines, this book will deal with what we need to get synchronized on our Rust compiler. There are three channels of Rust to choose from—stable, beta, and nightly. Rust operates on a six-week release cycle. Every day the nightly channel is rolled over, containing all the new patches that have landed on the master branch since the day before. The nightly channel is special, compared to beta and stable, in that it is the only version of the compiler where nightly features are able to be compiled. Rust is very serious about backward compatibility. Proposed changes to the language are baked in nightly, debated by the community, and lived with for some time before they're promoted out of nightly ...