How unstable is this library?

[timothee-haudebourg]

I see this library is using many unstable features. I'm wondering how much these features are actually required considering that the similar crate smallvec is providing a superset of staticvec but without using unstable features.

[slightlyoutofphase]

Every single one was required at the time of being added for one reason or another. The purpose of this crate was always to push the limits of Rust's const generics functionality as much as was possible at any given time (in a thoroughly well-tested manner). As far as smallvec, it's a crate that pre-dates the existence of const generics in Rust entirely, and last time I checked had only introduced them under a feature flag while still by default implementing everything with the classic "array type as generic parameter" syntax (like SmallVec::<[u8; 4]>::new(); for example).

Going to update my rust installation to the latest nightly ASAP and dig into what needs to be updated to get this compiling again, in any case.

[slightlyoutofphase]

Ok, in theory, the GitHub repo here now works exactly as it did before in every way apart from quicksorted_unstable no longer being const. I'm still not 100% sure this is an unsolvable problem, so I won't push anything "official" to crates.io until I've arrived at what I think is the actual best current solution for everything in nightly rust.

[slightlyoutofphase]

Going to close this now due to a planned fixed release releasing relatively shortly.