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The backwards compatibility argument is interesting. I think it's really compelling, but it's also worth taking into account the pains that the Haskell communit
by tel 12y ago
The backwards compatibility argument is interesting. I think it's really compelling, but it's also worth taking into account the pains that the Haskell community has been feeling since standardizing the standard library as insufficiently generic.
I have no idea if a similar problem is possible with Rust, but it'll be interesting to see how HKTs enter the scene if and when they do.
- kibwen 12y agoThe Rust standard library will exist as an separate entity from the language itself, and can be versioned, updated, and deprecated just as any other library can, without being tied to any specific version of the language.