A Call for Proposals for the Rust 2024 Edition

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A new Rust blog post/announcement has been posted!

The year 2024 is soon to be upon us, and as long-time Rust aficionados know, that means that a new Edition of Rust is on the horizon!

What is an Edition?

You may be aware that a new version of Rust is released every six weeks. New versions of the language can both add things as well as change things, but only in backwards-compatible ways, according to Rust's 1.0 stability guarantee.

But does that mean that Rust can never make backwards-incompatible changes? Not quite! This is what an Edition is: Rust's mechanism for introducing backwards-incompatible changes in a backwards-compatible way. If that sounds like a contradiction, there are three key properties of Editions that preserve the stability guarantee:

1. Editions are opt-in; crates only receive breaking cha...

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