* Highlights
* The language itself is considered feature complete for 1.0,
- though there is a significant amount of cleanup and bugfixes
- remaining.
+ though there will be many usability improvements and bugfixes
+ before the final release.
* Nearly 50% of the public API surface of the standard library has
been declared 'stable'. Those interfaces are unlikely to change
before 1.0.
+ * The long-running debate over integer types has been
+ [settled][ints]: Rust will ship with types named `isize` and
+ `usize`, rather than `int` and `uint`, for pointer-sized
+ integers. Guidelines will be rolled out during the alpha cycle.
* Most crates that are not `std` have been moved out of the Rust
distribution into the Cargo ecosystem so they can evolve
separately and don't need to be stabilized as quickly, including
[fb]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0212-restore-int-fallback.md
[objsafe]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0255-object-safety.md
[assoc]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0195-associated-items.md
+[ints]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/544#issuecomment-68760871
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