AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock

Re:AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock by pjmlp on Saturday November 28, 2020 @01:48PM (#25239546)

I still look forward to how editions will actually work in practice, when Rust gets a couple of years behind it.

Lib A compiled with edition 2018, talking callbacks to functions implemented in Lib B with edition 2020, Lib C edition 2030 importing Lib D edition 2025.

Naturally, I am also assuming that for pleasing the commercial users of binary libraries, typical in C and C++ universe, all those crates are only available as binary libraries being pulled into a multi-edition final executable.

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Re:AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock by dralley on Saturday November 28, 2020 @09:11PM (#25242390)

Rust does not yet have a stable ABI, and there is not any such thing as a "binary crate" at the moment. So it's kind of hard to run into that problem as the entire exercise is impossible.

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Re:AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock by pjmlp on Sunday November 29, 2020 @05:38AM (#25244278)

That exercise is possible to some extent with C and C++, so the whole point is to prove that epochs aren't the gold solution over language selection switches, as they are currently sold.

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