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That's nice, but I think at some point they will cut the old implementation, as otherwise they would end with hundreds of versions. And it doesn't exactly help
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That's nice, but I think at some point they will cut the old implementation, as otherwise they would end with hundreds of versions.
And it doesn't exactly help to compile newer software on an older OS.
- sunshowers 1y agoNo, there's a commitment to not cut old editions. A new edition/frontend comes out every 3 years, so Rust (and maybe humanity) is probably going to be completely dead long before it has hundreds of versions.
- steveklabnik 1y agoTo elaborate on what sunshowers said, because editions only impact the early parts of the compiler, most of the code isn’t edition specific, which makes maintenance easy.