Packaging Rust for Fedora

Posted Oct 30, 2022 10:28 UTC (Sun) by ssokolow (guest, #94568)
In reply to: Packaging Rust for Fedora by zdzichu
Parent article: Packaging Rust for Fedora

It's a bit misleading to point to pre-1.0 versions of Rust, given some of the massive changes that took place in the lead-up to promising stability.

For example, in 2013, they switched from compiler-privileged sigils to standard library types for things like Arc<T> and, in 2014, they removed the green threading runtime that had been helping to encourage people to draw comparisons with Go.

Rust as the "great interop with C and a higher-level systems programming language" language we know today didn't truly exist until late 2014 or early 2015.

Packaging Rust for Fedora

Posted Oct 30, 2022 17:41 UTC (Sun) by nevyn (guest, #33129) [Link] (1 responses)

If you dare to evaluate the language on the documentation and tutorials/examples ... it's even newer than that. I remember looking at rust seriously just after 1.0, and the documentation was challenging ... quickly looking much more recently the situation had improved a lot (maybe even completely fixed).

Packaging Rust for Fedora

Posted Oct 30, 2022 23:29 UTC (Sun) by ssokolow (guest, #94568) [Link]

I've been using Rust since 1.0 (I lurked in /r/rust until the stability promise came into play, then started writing code once I could trust it would remain compilable), so my perspective on that could be a bit skewed.

Yes, Rust 1.0 was quite spartan... but you can still compile what you wrote for it in modern Rust assuming you don't fall into one of the exceptions like "this code only compiled because of a compiler bug".