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> The Rust team has a very high commitment to stability, and does way more to maintain stability than any other language/compiler I know of (by testing new vers
by banachtarski 10y ago
> The Rust team has a very high commitment to stability, and does way more to maintain stability than any other language/compiler I know of (by testing new versions and potentially-breaking-changes against the entire ecosystem)
I'm all for this but I really don't see how Rust's stability can hold a candle to the international standards committees that govern C and C++ (not to mention the investment from the big tech companies in developing and implementing these standards)
- Manishearth 10y ago> I'm all for this but I really don't see how Rust's stability can hold a candle to the international standards committees that govern C and C++ (not to mention the investment from the big tech companies in developing and implementing these standards) That's an orthogonal issue; that's adoption. More adoption means more stability, regardless of whether or not the thing has a standards committee. Of course Rust can't hold a candle to the level of adoption C has.
- TheCoelacanth 10y agoRust is far more stable than C was six years into it's life. It hasn't caught up with C yet, but C had a 38 year head-start.