Indeed. It was a very much different situation for, say, C or C++. Back then it was multiple proprietary implementations, and customers (if not vendors) had an

Indeed. It was a very much different situation for, say, C or C++. Back then it was multiple proprietary implementations, and customers (if not vendors) had an interest in a specification. For Rust, so far there is one (main) implementation, which is open source. Very different scenario.