editions

Posted Aug 20, 2024 0:17 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: editions by josh
Parent article: FreeBSD considers Rust in the base system

> And yes, it does seem like people are assuming Rust will have breakage on upgrades on par with other languages they have experience with, while not allowing for the possibility that a language can do better about compatibility.

What they want is the exact opposite: picking one, fixed, thus, eventually, old version of LLVM and Rust and using it for the duration of certain FreeBSD release.

And for some unfathomable reason they think Rust editions would save them. They wouldn't.

Rust just doesn't work that way.