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Re:Making a RISC-V Operating System Using Rust by flandre on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @11:45AM (#36327697)
> However rust versions everything.

I chuckled a little, after all, GCC isn't versioned and there's no companies out there still using GCC 4 or whatever kind of suffering they prefer.

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Re:Making a RISC-V Operating System Using Rust by junon on Thursday June 15, 2023 @01:05AM (#36336622)
That wasn't my point at all, if you read the rest of the comment. I think it was clear I was referring to the ability pin and fetch specific versions of the toolchain when necessary, directly from Rust's tooling.
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