The Case for Rust (in the base system)

[cracauer@]

I'm in the same boat, and I don't really get it - LLVM is fully backwards-compatible, right? So it should be possible to only build the highest version LLVM needed, not need to build three different versions.

Not if you use it as a library collection. The library APIs change heavily with each version.

 

[kpedersen]

Yeah. The package set I use on this workstation required compiling three different versions of LLVM. Please don't add 5 versions of Rust to the mess.

Indeed. Perhaps with some duct tape, the same approach as TV remotes could be taken.

Please refer to this diagram.

The distribution could be called MegaRust.

 

[astyle]

Not if you use it as a library collection. The library APIs change heavily with each version.

yeah, not happy about that. Python suffers from the same problem. C doesn't.

Please refer to this diagram.

You stole all my remotes and duct-taped them together??? Why not put ALL of the remotes on your phone? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.roku.remote&hl=en_US&pli=1

 

[kpedersen]

Why not put ALL of the remotes on your phone?

Because my phone is already duct taped to my car dash board so I can use it to pay for parking