If you don’t know in what way Rust needs to be improved, you don’t know enough to be making confident pronouncements of what it needs.
And like I’ve pointed out before on this thread, a second compiler does exist. It could help with bootstrapping because it’s written in C++ but that’s about it?
Plenty of successful languages have just the one implementation. Python is a great example. Slowing down python development by making everyone proposing a new feature have to convince two separate teams to adopt it wouldn’t help either the Python ecosystem or the Rust one.
Frankly, this thread has gone like every other thread on this subject. Advocates for a spec and second compiler are unable to come up with technical arguments in favour of it. Instead they simply say “well I’ve seen it done by this other language, so it should be done here as well.” That’s just cargo culting.
The only thing different about this thread is hearing from people that work in progress spec and second compiler aren’t enough. No, it needs to be ready right now!!! Yeah alright.
If you don’t know in what way Rust needs to be improved, you don’t know enough to be making confident pronouncements of what it needs.
And like I’ve pointed out before on this thread, a second compiler does exist. It could help with bootstrapping because it’s written in C++ but that’s about it?
Plenty of successful languages have just the one implementation. Python is a great example. Slowing down python development by making everyone proposing a new feature have to convince two separate teams to adopt it wouldn’t help either the Python ecosystem or the Rust one.
Frankly, this thread has gone like every other thread on this subject. Advocates for a spec and second compiler are unable to come up with technical arguments in favour of it. Instead they simply say “well I’ve seen it done by this other language, so it should be done here as well.” That’s just cargo culting.
The only thing different about this thread is hearing from people that work in progress spec and second compiler aren’t enough. No, it needs to be ready right now!!! Yeah alright.