Add announcement post for 1.16 #153
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| [can show off your TravisCI or Appveyor badges]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/3546 | ||
| In addition, both Cargo and crates.io [understand categories]. Unlike keywords, which are free-form, |
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This probably deserves a more prominent mention.
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should this be up at the top then, maybe?
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Of this section? I'm not sure. It just felt a bit buried.
But reflecting more, I'm not sure the front-end experience is quite where we want it to make a "big splash" here, so maybe a passing mention is better.
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That's fair. I'm happy to move it wherever, to be honest.
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Looks great! I don't think it's too long -- just plenty to talk about :-) |
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| [This now happens nearly everywhere]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/38927 | ||
| [some other related improvements]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/38154 | ||
| Finally, `Self` can now appear [in impl headers] and [in struct expressions]. |
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Self in impl headers rarely works in 1.16
The final piece was landed in rust-lang/rust#40008, so it will be fully available only in 1.17
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| [This now happens nearly everywhere]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/38927 | |||
| [some other related improvements]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/38154 | |||
| Finally, `Self` can now appear [in impl headers] and [in struct expressions]. | |||
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@steveklabnik
My comment was only about impl headers, Self in struct expressions (Self { a: 10 }) is fully supported in 1.16
This isn't 100% ready to ship, as I need to run thanks still, so the number is wrong.
I wonder if it's not a bit too long, especially the diagnostic bit.
r? @rust-lang/core