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Lang
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This is a relatively quiet week, since nrc was out. We did, however,
decide to place RFC #1260 into FCP. This RFC concerns allowing the
use of a re-export for the main function. We also decided to accept
RFC #1245, which permits const fn functions to be declared
unsafe.
Compiler
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Quiet week this week. The meeting consisted primarily of triage and minor bug fixes.
Libs
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This week the primary libs focus was resolving several outstanding
issues and PRs that needed a team-wide decision. We also discussed the
following nursery nominations:
along with more general process clarifications around the nursery.
We also saw a proposal for moving liblibc out of the nursery, while
simultaneously greatly clarifying its purpose and design:
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PR #1291:
RFC: Promote the
libc crate from the nursery
There has been significant discussion around no_std and friends,
which is currently in FCP:
Other FCP issues for 1.5 stabilization are available
here;
please leave feedback!
Finally, we accepted the RFC on wildcard dependencies in crates.io:
No RFCs moved into FCP this week.
Tools
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Some exciting developments happened in the past few weeks on the tooling and
infrastructure point, here’s some of the highlights:
