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Re:AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock by higerordermap on Saturday November 28, 2020 @05:22AM (#25236733)
Having a spec is enough IMO. Go has one. That enables alternative implementations. There are enough reasons to not want an implementation monoculture.
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Re:AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock by cageface on Saturday November 28, 2020 @07:33AM (#25237169)
What are the reasons? I see a lot of benefits of an open source monoculture, especially if corporate backing is uncertain.
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Re:AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock by higerordermap on Saturday November 28, 2020 @07:58AM (#25237248)
Competition is great. If there is no competition, implementation quality stagnates. It happened with GCC, for example.
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Re:AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock by cageface on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:10AM (#25237963)
I doesn't seem like a comparable situation. There were already multiple competing C & C++ compilers including several commercial options. I don't think complacency is holding Rust back.
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