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Rust 1.86 Released With Trait Upcasting, Deprecates i586-PC-Windows-MSVC


Rust 1.86 is now available today as the latest version of this popular programming language.

Rust 1.86 is now available today as the latest version of this popular programming language. Rust 1.86 also adds suppot for HashMaps and slices to support indexing multiple elements mutably, safe functions can now be marked with the #[target_feature] attribute, and other alterations. But since Windows 10 is the minimum OS version for Rust and that itself requires SSE2, the Rust developers are removing the i586 tier-two target and just leaving the superior i686 target.

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