Re: [PROPOSAL] Builder, a build system integration for Emacs

[Po Lu]

Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

>>> You are apparently unaware that Rust guarantees backward
>>> compatility of source code.
>>
>> I am unware of almost _everything_ about Rust
>>
>
> The "you" above was not you (Richard) ;-)
>
>>
>> Other people have told me that Rust changes very often, that it is
>> unstable.
>>
>
> That's incorrect, unless you use Rust's "nightly" version, which is
> its experimental branch.  Rust's "stable" is stable, and code that
> builds with a stable version of the Rust compiler should build with
> any later stable version of the Rust compiler.

Except that a large quantity of code utilizes ``unstable'' features.
As a result, changes to the ``nightly'' compiler often break large
amounts of code, without a centralized place where the breakage can
be fixed (i.e. Gnulib.)