Re:GCC Rust Monthly Report #9 August 2021
by mempko on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @08:56AM
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Having multiple implementations is a sign of a healthy programming language. C++, Rust's primary competitor in this space has multiple implementations and all are used by somebody. In fact, if rust as a language cannot deal with multiple compilers (ecosystem doesn't allow it as you described by your crates.io) then I don't see how it can overtake C++.
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Re:GCC Rust Monthly Report #9 August 2021
by myrrlyn on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @05:07PM
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> Having multiple implementations is a sign of a healthy programming language
this is frequently taken as axiomatic but there's no actual support for it in reality. there are plenty of healthy single-implementation languages (go, rust, scala, erlang) and plenty of unhealthy multi-implementation languages (c, d, sql, javascript) to go alongside the healthy/multi (python, ruby) and unhealthy/single (php, i guess, i don't care about this quadrant very much)
Re:GCC Rust Monthly Report #9 August 2021
by southerntofu on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @02:08PM
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> if rust as a language cannot deal with multiple compilers (ecosystem doesn't allow it as you described by your crates.io)
Why would that not be the case? crates.io is just a code repository like any other. You don't need crates.io to write/use Rust code, and crates.io has no specific requirement for a certain compiler.
It just so happens that currently only the main implementation of Rust language (rustc) can compile all of crates.io repository, but this could change in the future.