What is "the previous thread of discussion?" My response was all of 5 lines, saying that if dthul's comment were true, then it implies that Rust has a rather s

What is "the previous thread of discussion?" My response was all of 5 lines, saying that if dthul's comment were true, then it implies that Rust has a rather small code base. And indeed, Crater does not test all publicly available Rust code. ("Not all code is on crates.io! There is a lot of code in repos on GitHub and elsewhere", and only for "Linux builds on x86_64", not Windows, says https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/tests/crater.html https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/tests/crater.html). Rust is much bigger than dthul's comment implies. You may well be correct when adding the qualifier "meaningful", but that's a different thread of discussion. > Why do you think a 12 year old needs to publish their "hello world" programs because of Crater? I mentioned that because you changed the thread of discussion to discuss centralized vs. decentralized code distribution. > because a very very wide swath of code was tested. And C++ language developers also analyze a 'wide swath of code' - millions of lines or more - for changes.