Rust 0.12.0 released
I'm very excited at the progress in this release. In particular I'm thrilled at the ongoing focus on ergonomics and overall developer experience, what with the push for quality documentation (brand-new tutorials, code examples for all library functions, and API stability markers) and the rapid maturation of Cargo. Also, lifetime elision and `where` clauses have done wonders in reducing the horror that has historically plagued Rust function signatures.<p>There's also been tons of progress toward the last features that are blocking the 1.0 release (<a href="http://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/09/15/Rust-1.0.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/09/15/Rust-1.0.html</a>). The long-awaited work on dynamically-sized types is now partially complete, and the only two remaining big hurdles that I can think of are closure reform and trait coherence reform. Onward to stability!