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Stabilizing Rust's Never Type

The gist

Rust contributor waffle stabilized the never type "!" via pull request #155499.
The change ends a decade of feature gates for Rust programmers.

How it unfolded

  1. Aug 24, 2026Rust compiler contributor waffle stabilized the never type via pull request #155499, after more than two years of work.
  2. Sep 8, 2026LWN published "Stabilizing Rust's never type" by Daroc Alden.
  3. Sep 9, 2026The article was posted to Hacker News by cjd8 and listed in This Week in Rust 668.

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