Steve Klabnik

Making maintenance easier is a benefit, but IMHO not the primary reason. Rust folks often say "oh yeah, you can learn Rust, go read the book!" and then get handed...

They're called "attributes" and they're largely mentioned in passing. We could do a better job with them for sure.

@carols10cents , do you have any idea if and where we would fit more in about attributes?

The historical reason they were called "attribute-like macros" is because they are macros, but they look like attributes. It is true that they *are* attributes. It really depends on where...

https://crates.io/crates/cargo-outdated works well today

Two recent issues where this has cropped up: * https://github.com/steveklabnik/semver/pull/101 * https://github.com/google/pulldown-cmark/pull/55 and https://github.com/google/pulldown-cmark/pull/56

Yeah, there has been some small amount of discussion about attempting to determine breakage as part of the metatdata the central server has.

As someone who participated in the first migration... you fundamentally need to give people some scratch space. That could be internals, that could be here, whatever. Honestly, I personally don't...

today: just a general "hey check out this RFC, we'll have to decide on it eventually." Lots of comments!

Today: niko and I need to chat about the feedback we've gotten, stuff has died down