Yet another attempt to make the prose on the std crate page
clearer and more informative.
This does a lot of things: tightens up the opening, adds useful links
(including a link to the search bar), offers guidance on how to use
the docs, and expands the prelude docs as a useful newbie entrypoint.
Attempted to organize them in a way more relevant to what newbies
would be interested in hearing.
I am not satisfied by this at all, but by virtue of deleting old links alone I think it is an improvement.
r? @steveklabnik
An automated script was run against the `.rs` and `.md` files,
subsituting every occurrence of `task` with `thread`. In the `.rs`
files, only the texts in the comment blocks were affected.
This commit is an implementation of [RFC 503][rfc] which is a stabilization
story for the prelude. Most of the RFC was directly applied, removing reexports.
Some reexports are kept around, however:
* `range` remains until range syntax has landed to reduce churn.
* `Path` and `GenericPath` remain until path reform lands. This is done to
prevent many imports of `GenericPath` which will soon be removed.
* All `io` traits remain until I/O reform lands so imports can be rewritten all
at once to `std::io::prelude::*`.
This is a breaking change because many prelude reexports have been removed, and
the RFC can be consulted for the exact list of removed reexports, as well as to
find the locations of where to import them.
[rfc]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0503-prelude-stabilization.md
[breaking-change]
Closes#20068
