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For a long time, there were really useful things that were available only in nightly, I believe.

The Rust team has also done an unprecedented job of balancing stability and improvement.



Yes. Note that there’s also lag, this survey was taken much earlier this year. And so:

> When asked why they used nightly, people responded with a broad range of reasons including: access to 2018 edition, asm, async/await, clippy, embedded development, rocket, NLL, proc macros, and wasm.

wasm, clippy, embedded, and proc macros aren't nightly any more. NLL, 2018 edition are coming soon. (December 6)




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