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Okay, I see what you mean; I guess if I were a Rust programmer I'd solve that by using rustup to install a fixed Rust release for development. However the Fire
by the_why_of_y 7y ago
Okay, I see what you mean; I guess if I were a Rust programmer I'd solve that by using rustup to install a fixed Rust release for development.
However the Firefox project has decided to always require the latest stable Rust release. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22022834 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22022834
In practice for C++ I've found it expedient to whitelist some subset of functionality from newer standards, because there's often useful features that already work in the major 3 compilers, but it'll be another 3 years until the last of the compilers adds the last obscure bits for full support of the new standard.