Rust 1.85 was released at the end of February 2025 and with it the Rust Edition 2024. This is difficult to understand because why is there an edition in addition to a version, and why do you need it?

The team behind Rust has announced plans to release the third edition of Rust, a programming language that's getting attention from Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google, Facebook, Mozilla, and ...

Underlying this is data from the Popularity of Programming Language Index, which is created by analysing how often language tutorials are searched on Google. It found that Rust has grown the most ...

The first stable version of Rust was released in May 2015. The programming language has established itself primarily due to its concepts for memory security.