Announcing Rust 1960 !!exclusive!! Jun 2026

Rust 1960 stabilizes and extends several commonly requested standard library APIs:

The headline feature of this release was the stabilization of a new syntax in Cargo.toml to handle "weak dependencies." announcing rust 1960

Rust 1960 includes a range of improvements to the language's foreign function interface (FFI), making it easier to integrate Rust code with existing C and C++ libraries. The new "extern" keyword allows developers to declare external functions and variables with greater precision and flexibility. Rust 1960 stabilizes and extends several commonly requested

fn main() -> Result<(), PunchedCardError> { let greeting = String::from("HELLO, WORLD"); let reader = CardReader::new(Port::A)?; print!("{}", greeting); Ok(()) } { let greeting = String::from("HELLO