Filling in state of art section

[staniewzki]

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[tonowak]

@obi1kenobi we can't use Draft PRs in this repo, so we're using "draft" in the title to indicate that the PR is not ready for review.

[tonowak]

Nicely written!

I have quite a few of suggestions, but most of them are suggestions about commas (which I did "by feel" and I might be wrong in some cases -- if you think some of my suggestions are wrong, feel free to mention it) and suggestions where I'm proposing alternatives (again, you don't have to accept all of them), so I hope that my suggestions won't be time-consuming.

[obi1kenobi]

Here are some interesting recent events that might be useful in your thesis.

This PR had a semver "near miss" and if not for cargo-semver-checks would probably have shipped a semver break. It's pretty clear from the context that the maintainers were not expecting their type to stop being UnwindSafe and were likely not even aware that their type was publicly UnwindSafe to start with.

The same project also unintentionally made a public type Sync and now that's a semver hazard for the future as reverting it is semver-major:

But there is a hazard for a future semver violation that you may not have noticed: the Behaviour type is now Sync (as of the bisected commit), and semver requires a major version if it ever stops being Sync. This is a good example of something that might be a good warn-level API evolution lint for the future.

[tonowak]

I've tried to close the resolved conversations. If I missed one, please just write a comment there so I can verify it and close it.

[SmolSir]

BAAAANG

[SmolSir]

Suggested change

	the metadata present in the rust-specific rlib binary static library format.
	the metadata present in the rust-specific rlib binary static library format.

This line is a bit exhausting to understand, some simplifying maybe?

[tonowak]

At this point, I just want to merge this PR.

[SmolSir]

[SmolSir]

Oh my what have I done .ru