Re: On community influencing (was Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.)

comex
2025-02-09T03:42:36Z

On Feb 8, 2025, at 12:44 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>
> including an upstream language
> community which refuses to make any kind of backwards compatibility
> guarantees, and which is *actively* hostile to a second Rust compiler
> implementation (I suspect because it might limit their ability to make
> arbitrary backwards-incompatble language changes).

Rust does, of course, make all sorts of backward compatibility guarantees for stabilized features.

The list of unstable features used by Rust for Linux is still long, but getting shorter.