The Rust Programming Language Blog Sep 15, 2014 • Niko Matsakis Rust 1.0 is on its way! We have nailed down a concrete list of features and are hard at work on implementing them. We plan to ship the 1.0 beta around the end of the year. If all goes well, this will go on to become the 1.0 release after the beta period. After 1.0 is released, future 1.x releases will be backwards compatible, meaning that existing code will continue to compile unmodified (modulo compiler bugs, of course). Of course, a Rust 1.0 release means something more than “your code will continue to compile”. Basically, it means that we think the design of Rust finally feels right. More specifically, it feels minimal . The language itself is now focused on a simple core concept, which we call ownership and borrowing (more on this later). Leveraging ownership and borrowing, we have been able ...