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Re:Why Perl? by cesarb on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:35PM (#36300651)
> Have you ever tried to recompile 1 yr old code in Rust with the latest compiler?

I have, more than once; it worked perfectly fine.

The only time it's broken for me is when the code had unstable nightly-only features, hidden behind a "nightly-only" feature flag, which was rejected by the parser on a newer Rust compiler, even though it would not be compiled due to the feature flag being disabled (even though it wouldn't be compiled, it still had to be parsed; IIRC, it was the change to the inline assembly syntax, and the fix was just to change from "asm" to "llvm_asm").

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Re:Why Perl? by raverbashing on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @12:42AM (#36305419)
Not my experience, though I think it was more due to libraries (but need to update a library -> needs newer compiler version -> needs to update another library, etc)
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