The never type (!) in Rust has finally been stabilized on nightly after 10 years of effort and 5 failed attempts. The author spent over 2 years working on it and describes the completion with a mix of relief and emptiness.
Background
Rust's never type (!), representing a value that never exists (e.g. from a function that never returns), has been one of the longest-standing unstable features in Rust's compiler. It has been attempted to stabilize multiple times over the past decade without success.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Aug 25, 2026 at 11:11 PM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10