Rust 0.2

• 1500 changes, numerous bugfixes

• New docs and doc tooling

• New port: FreeBSD x86_64

• Compilation model enhancements

  • Generics now specialized, multiply instantiated
  • Functions now inlined across separate crates

• Scheduling, stack and threading fixes

  • Noticeably improved message-passing performance
  • Explicit schedulers
  • Callbacks from C
  • Helgrind clean

• Experimental new language features

  • Operator overloading
  • Region pointers
  • Classes

• Various language extensions

  • C-callback function types: 'crust fn ...'
  • Infinite-loop construct: 'loop { ... }'
  • Shorten 'mutable' to 'mut'
  • Required mutable-local qualifier: 'let mut ...'
  • Basic glob-exporting: 'export foo::*;'
  • Alt now exhaustive, 'alt check' for runtime-checked
  • Block-function form of 'for' loop, with 'break' and 'ret'.

• New library code

  • AST quasi-quote syntax extension
  • Revived libuv interface
  • New modules: core::{future, iter}, std::arena
  • Merged per-platform std::{os*, fs*} to core::{libc, os}
  • Extensive cleanup, regularization in libstd, libcore