Thread by @m_ou_se

🦀✨ @rustlang 1.58.0 was released just now!

blog.rust-lang.org/2022/01/13/Rus…

As usual, a thread to highlight some of the new features:

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First, a feature we've all been waiting for: Format argument capturing!

let name = "world";
println!("Hello {name}!");

For now, this only works with identifiers, not with more complicated expressions. E.g. `println!("{a.f() + 10}")` does not work.

2/11

https://twitter.com/m_ou_se/status/1460965518572195842

Newly stabilized in the standard library is File::options(). It's identical to OpenOptions::new(), but you don't have to import the OpenOptions type separately from the File type.

3/11

Option and Result now have an unsafe unwrap_unchecked() function. If you're absolutely sure that the Option contains a Some, or the Result contains an Ok, you can use these to unwrap the value while skipping any checks. (Getting this wrong means undefined behaviour though!)

4/11

Path and Metadata now have an is_symlink() method. This saves some typing, as previously this had to be done with std::fs::symlink_metadata(path) followed by metadata.file_type().is_symlink().

5/11

In Rust 1.57, many library functions got the #[must_use] attribute to prevent subtle mistakes. With Rust 1.58, this effort is now completed, and all functions that should have #[must_use] according to the accepted guidelines now have that attribute.

6/11

https://twitter.com/m_ou_se/status/1466439813230477312

The `Command` api now no longer searches the current working directory on Windows, to match the behaviour on other platforms. This will prevent problems like CVE-2021-3013: cve.org/CVERecord?id=C…

7/11

Many file operations like File::open(), fs::create_dir(), etc. now all work with long paths on Windows. The paths are automatically canonicalized and prefixed by \\?\, which is how extended-length paths are expressed on Windows.

8/11

Const evaluation got a bit more powerful again. You can now dereference pointers in const context. Only *const though, not *mut.

9/11

And the last thing I want to highlight in this thread:

Rustdoc now shows methods from all recursive Deref implementations, instead of only the outermost one. So if your type is Deref<Target = String>, it now not only shows the String methods, but also all the str methods.

10/11

And that's the end of today's thread!

For a more complete list of changes in Rust 1.58, check the release notes:

Rust: github.com/rust-lang/rust…
Cargo: github.com/rust-lang/carg…
Clippy: github.com/rust-lang/rust…

Enjoy! ✨🦀

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