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Rust 1.88 Released With Improvements For Naked Functions, Chaining Let Statements


Last month saw the release of Rust 1.87 that celebrated ten years of the Rust programming language while out today is Rust 1.88 that continues iterating the language with new features.

On the Cargo side, Rust 1.88 for Cargo brings automatic cache cleaning by running garbage collection on the cache within the home directory. Cargo currently is set to remove files downloaded from the network if not accessed in a three month period. Rust 1.88 also brings support for boolean literals to the cfg predicate language, stabilized a number of APIs, and the i686-pc-windows-gnu target has been demoted to being a Tier-2 architecture.

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