> the rust-lang.org homepage loudly proclaimed that the implementation was a prototype I get what you're saying, but a 'prototype' is perhaps a bit far. Rust w

> the rust-lang.org homepage loudly proclaimed that the implementation was a prototype I get what you're saying, but a 'prototype' is perhaps a bit far. Rust was far from being called a prototype years before being declared stable, however I do agree that branding Swift 1.0 in 2014 was a mistake. Personal theory is that if you want to release something at Apple to the public, and Chris wanted to get feedback, you have to brand it 1.0 > just saying "we warned you there were going to be breaking changes :shrug:" drips with contempt Ouch, that's going a bit too far, Chris Lattner definitely doesn't strike me as someone who has contempt for developers. He gave us LLVM, (which BTW Rust uses as its backend) and by all signs he worked very hard in the background to get Swift open-sourced. Now they're taking a lot of feedback from the community via their Swift Evolution process and the Swift community wants the language to continue to evolve, so it does, not sure what could've they done better in this regard.