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Re:Shipping Rust code in Firefox by pcwalton on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @03:02PM (#12081508)
> You shouldn't need to test various versions of Rust if you there is a strong backward compatibility policy.

Can you specify, in particular, what you think Rust is not doing that it should be doing?

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Re:Shipping Rust code in Firefox by themihai on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @03:38PM (#12081744)
I would like the code developed now to work with all subsequent rust releases until 2.0 so that I can take advantage of improvements to the compiler and std libraries without any additional effort. A small effort may effort may be required if there were security/critical bugs.
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Re:Shipping Rust code in Firefox by pcwalton on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @04:02PM (#12081909)
> I would like the code developed now to work with all subsequent rust releases until 2.0 so that I can take advantage of improvements to the compiler and std libraries without any additional effort.

Rust is doing exactly that.

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Re:Shipping Rust code in Firefox by moosingin3space on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @06:21PM (#12082662)
The Rust compiler is run against all the open-source crates published on crates.io to measure the impact of changes prior to release.
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Re:Shipping Rust code in Firefox by dikaiosune on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @09:34PM (#12083425)
Don't use nightly, and your wish is granted!
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