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Neville Dipale edited comment on ARROW-4678 at 2/26/19 5:10 AM:
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I'm the one who added box_syntax and box_patterns. If there's a way of matching 
datatypes in a ListArray(Box<DataType>) that can be done without the box 
pattern, we can remove the 2 unstable features.

EDIT: looks like try_from is getting stabilised in 1.34
 
{code:java}
error: the feature `try_from` has been stable since 1.34.0 and no longer 
requires an attribute to enable
  --> arrow/src/lib.rs:27:12
   |
27 | #![feature(try_from)]
   |            ^^^^^^^^
   |
   = note: `-D stable-features` implied by `-D warnings`
{code}
 


was (Author: nevi_me):
I'm the one who added box_syntax and box_patterns. If there's a way of matching 
datatypes in a ListArray(Box<DataType>) that can be done without the box 
pattern, we can remove the 2 unstable features.

> [Rust] Minimize unstable feature usage
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ARROW-4678
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-4678
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Rust
>    Affects Versions: 0.12.0
>            Reporter: Steven Fackler
>            Priority: Major
>
> The Rust implementation currently uses quite a few nightly features. This is 
> unfortunately a hard blocker on using these crates for many users.
> Here's the list of currently use nightly features:
>  * type_ascription: Unused, can be trivially removed.
>  * rustc_private: Unused, can be trivially removed.
>  * box_syntax: Indefinitely far from stabilization, trivially replaceable 
> with Box::new.
>  * box_patterns: Indefinitely far from stabilization, replaceable with some 
> minor restructuring of a couple of matches.
>  * serde's alloc feature: Unused, can be trivially removed.
>  * try_from: Scheduled for stabilization in Rust 1.35.
>  * specialization: Actively being worked on - maybe ~1 year timeframe?
>  * packed_simd: Actively being worked on - maybe ~1 year timeframe?
> The first set of features are easy enough to get rid of - I'll make a PR to 
> do that (https://github.com/sfackler/arrow/tree/more-stable). I'm a bit less 
> sure of what to do with specialization and packed_simd, though.



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