{
  "id": 6280863,
  "title": "[$] Stabilizing Rust's never type",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/stabilizing-rusts-never-type",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-08T13:34:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "LWN",
    "slug": "lwn",
    "url": "https://lwn.net/Articles/1091015/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A function's return type is supposed to indicate the kind of data that it produces. Rust's \"never\" type, which is denoted by an exclamation mark (\" ! \"), is the type the language uses to mark a function that never returns and other places where a value can never occur. For a long time, the never type was used internally by the compiler, but was considered an unstable feature. On August 24 , after…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}