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To be honest, I'm not seeing your pointing this out as relevant. I never claimed Rust should have a spec at this point in its life, or claimed any other language had a spec at an equivalent point in its life, and I explicitly disclaimed any criticism. I objected only to the statement that Rust is "just as finalized as any other language". Talking about other languages' youth and whether being specified early is a good thing is especially disingenuous, since the topic of the thread was whether Rust was a good candidate to use now, compared against other languages as they exist now, not making some kind of "fair" comparison against their early versions.

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"I objected only to the statement that Rust is "just as finalized as any other language"."

I might have been too hasty there. Your context and this quote makes much more sense. I say something similar to them myself. Yet, they've already entered a 1.0 mode where they're not breaking stuff with much of it documented in guides. That's not formal but pretty final on language itself. Standard libraries and other tooling are where most of their work is right now.

So, I don't feel it's an accurate statement but it's close if we're talking the language. I prefer to say the core language is pretty stable or something like that.