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Posted Sep 11, 2026 17:49 UTC (Fri) by wahern (subscriber, #37304)In reply to: Regular void by tialaramex
Parent article: Stabilizing Rust's never type
Granted, the headaches come from C wanting to support some degree of source-level compatibility with C++, as well as having many implementations, including multiple *major* implementations. These are headaches languages like Rust don't have to deal with. An implementation quirk in Rust can just become the de facto standard, or supported as hack through backward compatibility features. But when you have multiple implementations that diverge, there's no tidy way to fix that mess.
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