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I think Rust team would still have a very small stdlib even if they have more funding, here's a talk[0] where they aim to be relevant for the next 40 years, in
by norman784 3y ago
I think Rust team would still have a very small stdlib even if they have more funding, here's a talk[0] where they aim to be relevant for the next 40 years, in that time span there would be a lot of changes and to be backward compatible, you cannot have features in your stdlib that will be irrelevant or change in the next 5, 10, 15, 20 years.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3AdN7U24iU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3AdN7U24iU
- jmaker 3y agoThat’s a great point indeed. In Java and C++, there have been quite a few deprecations over the years and decades. In the Rust community, there’s unfortunately quite a lot of interesting but abandoned crates.
- badrequest 3y agoWhat changes are set to be made to the file format of PNGs that would prevent it from being relevant in the standard library 40 years from now?