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johnisgood 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

But Rust 1.0 can't compile Rust 1.1.

And as others have noted, C99 is a standard and Rust lacks one.

tremon 4 months ago [–]

But Rust 1.0 can't compile Rust 1.1

That's an impossible standard to hold Rust to, did you mean it the other way around? A C89 compiler can't compile all of C99 either.

gkbrk 4 months ago | [–]

But v1 of a C99 compiler can compile all of C99, and v2 of a C99 compiler can still compile all of C99.

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