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Rust and GCC, two different ways

Rust and GCC, two different ways

Posted Oct 18, 2021 4:17 UTC (Mon) by flussence (guest, #85566)
In reply to: Rust and GCC, two different ways by dpc
Parent article: Rust and GCC, two different ways

> When the language *is* an open source, very liberally licensed, free, portable implementation, there is really no big need to have any additional implementations.

Anyone who tried to use such an open spec on Microsoft platforms that claimed to support it between at least 2000-2010 would probably disagree with that point. C, HTML, Java, POSIX...

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Rust and GCC, two different ways

Posted Oct 18, 2021 8:35 UTC (Mon) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

Those are additional implementations of the standard that weren't liberally licenced, free or portable. Which kinda emphasises dpc's point - multiple specification-compliant implementations is only beneficial if all implementations are of high quality.


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