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Ben Knoble" , Ramsay Jones , Josh Steadmon , Calvin Wan Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 5:40=E2=80=AFAM Patrick Steinhardt wrote= : > The only reason why we want to have it as an optional component is to > make the transitioning period easier for downstream distributors. And > the intent is not to convert major components -- it should be trivial > components that we can use as test balloons, similar to how we did it > for all of our C99 test balloons. > > We cannot just pull the rug away under their feet without advance notice > that this is going to happen. I think making Rust optional for at least 1 version is a viable path. I'm not opposed to that idea; it was just easier to develop and talk about Rust as a hard dependency. I needed to know if making Rust optional was in demand before spending any significant time on that.